This year, Passports with Purpose (of which I’m a co-founder), has a goal of $50,000 to build a village in Southern India. Krishnammal Jagannathan (pictured left) and her husband are the founders of LAFTI (Land for Tillers Freedom) based in Southern India. They help the dalits (India’s lowest caste) in numerous ways. One such way Read More…
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What Makes a Travel Hotspot?
Last week over dinner, Elliott Ng from Uptake brought up an interesting theory as he made note of the concentration of travel bloggers in the Seattle area (see photo). He mentioned an article in The Atlantic Monthly by Richard Florida from a few years ago. Richard’s theory is that rather than the world being flat Read More…