Protected: The unbelievable filmmaking feats of our American friends on the Kuril expedition.

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 […]

If you think we drove the alternative Kolyma route just out of curiosity… you’re absolutely right! Purely and solely out of curiosity. As it turned out though, some of our key partners have facilities there – we protect them from all sorts of cyber-nastiness, and they invite us to visit their operations. And the stars […]

If you ever need to dash from Yakutsk to Magadan (or Magadan to Yakutsk) by car – you need to take the only road that exists between the two cities. And that road is the Kolyma Highway: 2000+ kilometers with the route Yakutsk – Khandyga – Ust-Nera – Susuman – Magadan. And it’s an absolutely […]

Oi folks! Still in Brazil, we were not far from the city of Manaus, in the Amazon lowlands. We’d just finished exploring the anabranches of the Rio Negro, so now it was time for our next course of amazing Amazonia – the Amazon Jungle!… There’s so much of it here that nobody really knows how […]