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Around-The-World Update #4: Greetings from New Zealand!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

3-years around-the-world through 35 countries on 5 continents and counting…

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Back in Action/Travel + Technology = Mixed Blessing

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

On the road my Macbook laptop is a photo editor, video assistant, digital databank, my global communication link to the world, and the only way I can call me mom. Two weeks ago. My little computer shut off and never turned back on. What happened next was nothing short of an epiphany.

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Support Volunteerism & Mike

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Please take a few seconds, and go vote for Mike Brooks and The 10,000 Hours Show for The Volvo For Life Awards. Feb 4th is the deadline.

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Alive and well in China.

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

After five months into a two year trip around-the-world, I am exceptionally happy to report that I am in fact alive and doing well. My first promise of 2007.

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Bon Voyage

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

After three years of researching, planning, and scheming, and after three weeks of selling, packing, cleaning, and goodbyes, I closed one chapter in my life to begin another, as I set off in an attempt to travel around-the-world in two years…I drove out of Iowa City headed Westward on Interstate 80—knowing the next time I came to Iowa it would be from the East.

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