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Lago Atitlan

Our Mission, Should we Choose to Accept it Many people search for meaning in life, but do not know where to look. Many people pray to numerous deities, assured that they will receive what they pray for. I was lucky in that I knew the meaning of life was firmly held by the best divine […]

Why Traveling with Kids is Hell (and Why I’ll Continue to Do It)

The Memory Game There are roughly 50 or so people who have what’s called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM for short. These people basically have a much, much higher ability to recall events in their life than the average person. For example, someone with HSAM could tell you what happened to him or her […]

Death in Asia, Part II – The Himalayas

Success!! I followed the two men down one of several makeshift aisles. Where they were leading me to, I didn’t know. Just then, I turned and looked to my left. Sitting neatly at eye-level was a black bag with a lime-green tag. Not just any lime-green tag, MY lime-green tag. I found my bag! It […]

Death in Asia, Part I – Kathmandu

Mistakes Man, Mistakes My wife and I travel a lot. Perhaps not as much as the average businessperson, but a lot no less. Especially abroad. But as much as we’ve traveled, we still make mistakes. These mistakes have led to missed flights, dangerous situations, wasted money, missed opportunities, lost property, lost time, anxiety, anger, frustration, […]

Winter in Europe…With a Baby

Settling on Europe One of your jobs as a parent is to keep your kids alive. In fact, that might be your main/only job. So, when you plan a big trip with a one-year-old, your first child, you shoot for a safe destination. And, as much as I love third world countries for the crazy […]

How Hard is it to see Pyramids? Honestly.

I’ll tell you how hard it is – very hard. Well, at least in our case it was. Now, granted, by refusing to take stupid tours, we inevitably make things infinitely more difficult for ourselves than they need to be. But must it have been this hard? First Attempt, Day One We had just arrived […]