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

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 […]

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 […]