Sunday, October 12, 2025

Live Now

"Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence." - Buddha

Future Archaeologists at CERN
Archaeologists 2,000 years from now exploring the remains of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, pondering what it was, what it was used for and what our rituals were. Perhaps aliens built it? One of them muses - Dall·e AI

Step foot in the Coliseum in Rome, gawk at how old it is and what it must have been like in its glory days filled with spectators and gladiators battling each other. Back home, go to the Sunday Football (or fĂștbol) game, walk into a stadium filled with 60,000 screaming spectators and players vying to win.

Stand at the base of the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, immense blocks stacked on top of each other as you ponder, how in the world did they do this? Back home, you can connect with anyone across the world in seconds, have access to limitless information in the palm of your hand, and live in sprawling cities from sea to shining sea.

Walk amongst Stonehenge wondering about ancient astronomy and asking how much did they really know? Back home, 500 feet below the surface sits a 17 mile tunnel called the CERN Large Hadron Collider where particles are accelerated to near the speed of light and smashed together.

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Egypt: More than the Pyramids

 


A cinematic, documentary-style journey through Cairo, Saqqara, Alexandria, Siwa, and Luxor. Told in a raw, poetic, and gritty travel style. This film explores not just ancient ruins, but the food, the people, the desert silence, and the living culture that makes Egypt timeless and gives it a heartbeat today.

For many, Egypt is just the pyramids. But travel here reveals a country layered with stories: shawarma, koshari, seafood, the Nile carving life through the desert, sugarcane juice in Alexandria, floating like a cloud in the surreal saltwater pools of Siwa, drifting above Luxor & the Temple of Hatshepsut in a hot air balloon, the vast columns of Karnak that rise like a forest of stone, the call to prayer threading through Cairo’s chaos and standing in the hushed brilliance of the Valley of the Kings where eternity still feels close.

This is a film about life, death, food, faith and the stories carved into stone. Egypt remembers its afterlife in vivid detail… history and present blur together in the streets… but it’s the living people today, their kindness and generosity, who remind you what really matters.

Watch this not as a tour guide but as a traveler’s invitation: to go deeper, to taste, to listen, to wonder, and to see Egypt for what it truly is… alive.

Sunday, September 28, 2025

One Step at a Time

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu

Defeated Climber
Defeated Climber - Dall·e AI

I fall to my knees, tears stream down my face, I look up at the last 100 feet to go and cannot fathom making it to the top. It might as well be 100 miles away. I can't do this. I shouldn't be here. I'm at 20,495 feet - the highest I've ever been - climbing on the mountain Salkantay in Peru, the summit is right there.

It's day two on this mountain, we've been climbing since midnight, it's currently 11 a.m. I didn't sleep at all in the tent, I'm beyond exhausted, I'm cold, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, my head hurts, I'm definitely hypoxic, I cannot feel my big toe on my right foot and I cannot deal with another false summit. I've already pushed myself beyond my limits, there's nothing left. If this ends up being another false summit, it will break me. I know it's not a false summit but that's where my mind jumps. We're off ropes, each free climbing this last bit, there is no danger here, that's all behind us - awaiting our return for the descent. The mountain has been showing us the entire climb why this mountain was revered by the Incas, why many people have perished on it and that we'll be very lucky to even be allowed to have the opportunity for a summit.