The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back
Author: Bill Shore
Inspiring profiles of social entrepreneurs and projects we all can learn from and hopefully replicate to give back to community.
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Author: John Carlin
Although the storyline is built around the South African rugby team and the 1995 World Cup, this book is more about Nelson Mandela and how he was able to unite a divided country. Inspiring.
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
Author: Paul Theroux
The author re-visits Africa and re-assesses the place he once knew... and judges it once and for all. Well written, poignant observations of the thumbprints left by career politicians, aid workers, and everyday people.
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
A look at the internal and external factors of how extraordinary people got to be, well, extraordinary. One of those books that challenges assumptions and makes you think differently.
When you come to a fork in the road….Take it.
— Yogi Berra
When it comes to lifestyle, it’s not what you choose, but rather how you choose it. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Personal Growth by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
22 Comments | 29 January 2010
Sure, we enjoyed our time in the Galapagos Islands. It’s difficult not to when you are surrounded by blue-footed boobies dancing their way to marriage and penguins torpedoing their way through the water.
But when travelers fly in and out of Ecuador only to see the Galapagos, they are missing out.
Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Ecuador, South America, Travel by: Audrey Scott
18 Comments | 27 January 2010
How do you get food to look like that? What kind of camera do you use? Do you use any special lenses?
Go to a big food website and the food glistens, the light is perfect and everything is in its place. But let’s say you are a traveler carrying a pocket or DSLR camera and you have a fascinating, colorful spread before you that you’d like to share with others or capture for your own memories. Conditions are tricky and time is limited.
What to do? Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Food, Photography by: Daniel Noll
27 Comments | 25 January 2010
We eat the mountain…and the mountain eats us.
– David, a mine guide and former miner in Potosi, echoes a decades-old sentiment about the city’s lifeblood, its world-famous silver mines.
It was late morning and the sun was bright, the sky crystal at 13,400 feet in Potosi, Bolivia. We were being tended to by a group of schoolgirls dressed as nurses at a hygiene fair; they sought to teach us the methods and benefits of properly washing our hands.
The mood: uplifting and hopeful.
Contrast this with just the day before. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Bolivia, Perspectives, South America, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
13 Comments | 21 January 2010
But if less is more, how you keeping score?
– Eddie Vedder, from the song Society
What is worth more? A dollar of stuff or a dollar of experience?
Technically, they are worth the same. But do both really deliver the same satisfaction? Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Personal Growth by: Audrey Scott
53 Comments | 18 January 2010
I feel sorry for the Colombians. They only have three types of peppers.
– A pepperista — surrounded by 40 different pepper varieties at the Mistura Peruvian food festival — sheds unintended humorous light on one of the many advantages of Peruvian cuisine.
Peruvian cuisine has attained a certain hipness over the last decade. So when we put out a call to our network for Peruvian food suggestions prior to our visit to Lima, we were surprised when the net response amounted to “ceviche and pisco sours.”
For sure those are requisite tastes, but the Peruvian food scene offers so much more. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Food, Peru, South America by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
28 Comments | 11 January 2010
Have you ever been thankful for an experience that you wouldn’t choose to repeat? Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Paraguay, South America, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
13 Comments | 6 January 2010
