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January 15, 2011

Find Your Life Purpose With 5 Simple Questions

What am I doing here? What is my life purpose? Do we even have one? These questions, and others like them, have been swirling around my mind for some time now. Several years ago I attempted to address them, briefly, but always felt like I haven’t appropriated those questions with the gravity they merited. Work [...]

January 13, 2011

Old 2010 and New 2011

New Year Day. I love this time of year, if only because I let my mind wander free into the land of dreams and possible outcomes. Like painting on canvas, I start to sketch with broad strokes in different directions, opening myself to my fullest potential, daring to dream big. Options are endless but my [...]

January 5, 2011

Life Lessons From Travel

Traveling is every free spirit’s wet dream, one I’ve been looking forward to for a long time, well before I hit the road for my RTW trip in early 2009. 18 months and 4 continents later, I’m back in peaceful Melbourne for the Australian summer, reflecting on what became one of my biggest adventures yet. [...]

December 31, 2010

2011 Goal List

Main Focus this year – Become a better writer Mental 1. Write from flow. Goal: Write 26 quality blog posts – One blog post every 2 weeks. 2. Improve vocabulary. Goal: Finish 24 books – Two books a month. 3. Improve Writing Style. Goal: Read every blog post of favorite bloggers with similar style 4. [...]

October 7, 2010

Getting engaged in Montreal

There are a few seemingly random choices in life that change the course of the future quite dramatically. I made one of them at the beginning of this year at a cool backpacker’s hostel in La Paz, Bolivia, while playing an Israeli card game with some other travelers. Out of the corner of my eye, [...]

September 6, 2010

Volunteering in the USA

Volunteering while traveling in Peru served as a great way to get a deeper connection with the country and its people, so when I saw a similar opportunity to volunteer in the US, I grabbed it with both hands. The Option Institute is an international Autism treatment center nestled in the middle of nature, which [...]

August 7, 2010

Help Bolivia, Learn Spanish

Crossing the border from Brazil, the richest country in South America to Bolivia, the poorest, marked yet another new direction in my trip. After 2 months of beach, sun and samba I was looking for something else, perhaps more meaningful. I remember walking through the main Market of La Paz, Bolivia’s high mountain capital, wondering [...]

July 7, 2010

Brazil Brazil

“What is your favourite place you travelled?” This one question always seems to be standing out. At first it seemed hard to answer as I liked so many places and each one for its own reason However aftersome more thought, the same winner is always crowned: Brazil. More than 2 blissful months in the land [...]

April 22, 2010

Summer in Buenos Aires

Travelling in South America has always been at the top of my list, not only because of its extraordinary nature, but also because of its many colourful cultures. It’s a trip that many young Israelis undertake, almost religiously, after their stint in the army. It’s a trip that I never had the chance to take [...]

March 30, 2010

Trekking in Patagonia

After spending a month in busy, humid and crowded Buenos Aires, arriving to deserted El Calafate, an Argentinean town in the middle of nowhere with lots of cool, clean, fresh air, felt so right. El Calafate is the main gateway into Patagonia and Glaciers National Park with its famous Perito Moreno Glacier. The only word [...]

February 28, 2010

Building a house in Peru

This is an inspiring story of how one thought and a single email with good intentions can spark the kind of collective energy that ignites people’s hearts across the globe. Sometimes the worst situations in one’s life end up being the best opportunities in the long run. This was the case for Serpio Huaman, a [...]