19 Oct Our Most Challenging Trip: Varanasi, India
Missy and I have seen a lot of the world, including many 3rd world countries, and it’s pretty difficult to give us culture shock… But that is exactly what happened on this life-changing adventure… We’d been trekking through India for more a little more than a week, dressed traditional in Indian clothes, eating the local food, experiencing the local customs and taking in the EXTREMES of this fascinating culture; from the most spectacular opulence of the Taj Mahal, to the most intense poverty in the back streets and alleys of Dehli… But nothing could prepare us for what we’d experience in Varanasi.
18 Oct Our Best-Ever Kid Trip: A South East Asian Adventure
My good friend, Tim Ferris, wrote a little book you may have heard of, "The Four Hour Work Week" (it's sold like 10 trillion copies). Missy and I read it at the same time in early 2008. Among the many big ideas in that book, Tim poses the following question (and I paraphrase); "If you have a job you can perform remotely, why not go live in another country for a while, have a serious, life-changing adventure, and come back smarter, wealthier and substantially more cool?" Reading Tim's book just happened to coincide with another discovery, namely, that our youngest daughter, Jade, was dyslexic, which is why school was so difficult for her. She needed a change. And we needed to do whatever was necessary to help her increase her self-esteem. These factors, coupled with our already passionate love of travel, could only mean one thing...
23 Aug The True Nature of Money
During the course of my journey from poverty to financial abundance I developed a deep understanding of what money is, where it comes from, what it means and what it can do. At a very young age, I remember looking around at how people viewed money and thinking to myself, “Something is very wrong here. If people understood what wealth is, where it comes from and what it can do for people, they would not view money the way they do...” So I studied money. I read everything I could about it. I discovered that if we want to begin to remove the mystery, chaos and confusion surrounding money, the best place to start is by answering this question: what is money?
23 Aug The Ultimate Social Experience: Traveling With Friends
I’m enjoying a tasty Expresso, while watching the morning sun warm the crystal clear waters of the Caldera in Santorini, Greece. The sleepy town of Fira is starting to come to life now; shopkeepers and café owners greeting each other, farmers driving horse-drawn carts hauling vegetables into town, dogs barking, motorbikes humming in the streets above the village…
22 Aug Why Travel Will Make You Smarter
January 14, 2010. 3:30 PM. Kuching, Malaysia - Missy and I just boarded a local flight bound for the rainforests near Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. Our plane took off in the sheets of torrential rainfall that typify the monsoon season in this part of the world. It seems like a good, sturdy vessel, so we recline our seats a bit and relax. Now, gently floating above the clouds together, warm coffee in our hands, we turn our attention to one of our favorite subjects of all time; exploring the world in which we live.
We begin by reflecting on how excited we are to finally experience Borneo. It’s been on our "travel hit-list" for a very long time. We’ve spent a great deal of time in Indonesia; Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumba… But Borneo is different than the other islands. It’s one of the least explored places on earth.
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