I've been awake 6 hours in Senegal. I maneuvered the Dakar airpirt, which is a justifiable assault by hack and real cab drivers .... Because my adopted famiky here got me. In this time Boris tried to teach me to moonwalk. I had a mini dance part…
Reynisfjara Beach outside of Vik on the southern coast of Iceland, even in March, will get the best of you. The sun will shine and the wind will freeze the cold coming from the sea onto you and blow you down the sand. It's still amazing and yo…
Dear New Zealand, You make me feel small, in the best possible ways. Infinity and I am a speck.…
This year I became friends with a guy who, with his bare hands, successfully fought off a jaguar that jumped on his back while he was tending to goats on the African plain. I am doing something right.…
This time last year I was peeing .... That's right, peeing ... At my friend's house in Managua, Nicaragua, when the earth sounded as if giant gears from deep within were cranking it open and my insides rumbled with it at my core. Even if I&#…
When the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain and Lithuania gained its independence in 1990, it wasn't long before artists and rebels took up a residence in an abandoned house by the River Vilnia. They congregated in the courtyard outside the…
I landed in Peru on a hot, sticky night nearly 9 years ago and launched The Friends Project and this idea that we can make a difference, with little resources but good ideas. Here's my first post. I can still feel the sweat dripping down my neck…
I'm going to Lithuania because I had to look up where the capitol is on a map and I know no one who has been there. So I will go find out myself. I'm also going to drive a tank. Uzupis is an area of the city comprised of mostly artists a…
I finally saw “Into the Wild.” Do you know this story? It is a true one. A college graduate who wished to seek truth and simplicity gave up his possessions, gave his money to charity, drove his junker car out into the desert and abandoned it and th…
