ecently I had the opportunity to hear His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speak in Dallas as part of the Hart Global Leaders Forum at SMU. The Dalai Lama, renowned spiritual leader of Tibet and a Nobel laureate, received an honorary degree and delivered a special lecture to an auditorium full of school children, college [...]

Commercials are funny little things aren’t they? Sometimes hated, sometimes loved, sometimes searched for but mostly just ignored; commercials have become at times the bane of our existence. Outside of the Super Bowl, when the world purposefully uses services like TiVo to record commercials or social media to find commercials, I find for the most [...]

{EAV_BLOG_VER:210172b055009462} (Empire Avenue needed to verify my blog so it sounded like a great time to write a blog post!) Thanks to some /gentle/ pushing from my friend Brad I decided to try out Empire Avenue, the stock market of the social web. At first glance the game was a bit overwhelming; however, the thrill [...]

Ferry boats and vineyards on the island

On our last day in Auckland we decided to take a ferry boat over to Waiheke Island and take in the beautiful scenery of the island and to wine and dine ourselves at MudBrick Winery and enjoy some more wine tastings before hoping on the flight home.

Rainforests, dance clubs and shopping

Arriving at the launch spot for our tour it all began to sink in for what we were about to do… we were about to take a tour in the caves of new zealand doing a combination of jumping, tubing, swimming and more all in an effort to see maggot secretions that glow in the dark while it was about 6 degrees centigrade outside (50 F) and with the water nearly freezing!

Te Puia, Huka Falls, and a fake geyser!

Upon arrival to Rotorua we drove out to the Agrodome to begin out adventure sports. First up? The zorb! For those not familiar with zorbing you are essentially placed into a huge plastic ball with a pseudo womb inside that is filled with some water (so you can fly around inside) and buffeted with air to cushion the ride down the hill. So, in 4 degree centigrade weather (thats about 40 degrees fahrenheit using a quick conversion) we changed into outré swimsuits and were driven to the top of the mountain to fall down it in our zorb balls!

What is wifi? Plus zigzags and ziggurats and sheep!

Abba + Madonna + Jet-lagged Americans + Kiwis = Awesome Wine Tour!