Soweto 2010

“Are you happy sir?” … I heard in what seemed to be a far off voice.  I said, “What do you mean?”.  I’m walking through the slums of Soweto with my tour guide Life and this seems like a random question.  He says, “Are you happy with South Africa so far?”.  In a nano-second with [...]

Tales from the Road

Some small stories while waiting for my flights in Hong Kong airport:
The meaning of “one by one”?  When you are having dinner with Chinese customers and partners, and you are the most senior executive in the room, and the host, you are expected to go around with the most senior executive customer host – and [...]

Traveling Rants

If you’ve ever traveled extensively for business, you know that the priorities for hotel rooms are short and focused.  After flying on five airlines this week (Korea, Cathay, Jet, Singapore and Eva) and staying in three different hotels, we just want the basic things.
For me, I can list the top things that are important and [...]

Land Ho!

Land Ho! We cruised into the docks in Ushuaia right around 0700 and disembarked around 0800. There was a lot of good-byes being said for those that were not doing the Fin Del Mundo marathon. I used Mike’s phone to call Linda and was sad to hear two things: one was that Trinity, one of [...]

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