Events

Alas, everything comes to an end sooner or later. Not only the Brazilian leg, but our winter tour around South America as a whole was drawing to a close. It was time for us to be heading back to Manaus, where there’d be a plane to São Paulo, and from there – back home. And […]

Bem-vindos de volta, pessoal! As promised, the second part to my report on our lodgings in the Brazilian Amazon. Land-based: done (yesterday); today… see the title!… If only I’d known beforehand, I’d have made a point of lingering aboard this vessel a good while longer. I’ll come clean right away: faced with several options, we […]

Olá pessoal! It’s time to tell you about the places we stayed at in the Brazilian Amazon – those on water and on land. Today: land – and there was just one: the Mirante do Gavião hotel. And since we checked in straight off the yacht – that is, from the river side – and […]

After a packed business program, our short, culturally-contemplative race around Vietnam (taking in the Cao Dai Holy See Temple and also Mount Ba Den) continued… And the time came to dive into a long-held dream of mine: to see the Cu Chi tunnels where the Vietnamese resistance fought all-out against the U.S. Army (and not […]

After a two-and-a-half-hour walk through the jungle and clambering through the stone labyrinths of the Grutas do Madadá, we were treated to a tasty (even relatively lavish) lunch, lovely weather, and hammocks to lie in. Everything around us was whispering: “Relax, stick around, there’s nowhere you need to be.” But then a cloud of ominous […]

Chào, folks! Here I am – back in Vietnam (I’m a poet – I just don’t know it). So – what am I here for, why, and why here of all places? Actually, I’ve talked about the “why” plenty before. The thing is, when you manage to make a successful product/service/technology, an “ecosystem” of sales […]