Healing. Empowerment. Resilience.

  • Mission Accomplished!

    Highway to Hell When was the last time you went to bed with dread?  For me, it’s a rare experience.  I’m blessed to have a family I love and a job that I enjoy.  Dread rarely hits me as it did the night of Day One of our Inca Trail Trek.  I simply could not…

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  • The One Percent Club

    Seven thousand people visit Machu Picchu daily.  70 of those 7,000 people (1%) arrive at Macchu Picchu via the Inca Trail. The remainder arrives via bus and train.  When my girlfriend, Jennifer Solomon, called and asked me to celebrate her 50th birthday by climbing Machu Picchu with her I did not hesitate for one second and…

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  • Nothing Can Stop Me, I’m All the Way Up

    Cusco stands at an altitude of 10,000 feet. I felt the change in altitude the minute I hit the jetway upon my arrival from Lima.  The air was thin and cold and I realized immediately that I needed to slow my pace as I wound my way through the airport to the taxi stand outside. …

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  • Tour de Force = A Trip to Paris during the Pandemic

    It is with great sadness that I press “send” on my last post. I still have so much to share but will save the “big bites” for when we come together in person. Until that time comes, I want to do a quick share of what life was like inside the oh-so-small-window of opportunity we…

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  • Montmartre – You Stole My Heart

    Did you know that there are 20 distinct neighborhoods in Paris referred to as arrondissements? They are laid out like a snail shell with the first neighborhood inside the snail shell labeled Arrondissement Une or 1er. This first neighborhood is the geographical center of Paris and this is where the Louvre is located. Each district…

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  • Touring Paris with my “Ride or Die” Travel Buddies

    Well, none of you guessed it! The answer is… We toured Paris in a sidecar! Why ride the “Hop-On-Hop-Off” bus when you can slide into a retro sidecar and see the same sights? Best. Decision. Ever. We laughed so much and smiled so hard that our faces hurt at the end of the tour. I…

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