Hi everyone. I'm high on life and writing in from the Cathay Pacific LAX-HKG flight. I'm fading fast, but with 13 hours to go until arrival, there should be plenty of time to a) sleep and b) write this note to you.

At any given time, most of us have no shortage of challenges we're trying to work through or overcome.

Entrepreneurs must create something out of nothing -- a process that is both fun and tiring. Ambitious people who work in organizations have to...

Greetings from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I've arrived on the final leg of my Monster Trip of 2009.

I've wanted to share some of the details behind my visit to Saudi Arabia for a while, but as you read this article, you'll probably see why I had to wait...

Last year at about this time, I took what I called the Monster Trip of 2008.

It involved four continents, driving through Italy in the middle of the night, visiting Iraqi Kurdistan, roaming by train and bus across the Baltics and Moldova, and finally coming home through Asia -...

The flight attendant escorts me to my seat in 2B. She waits as I put my things down, and offers to hang my jacket. I spread out my books, journal, and iPod over the seat next to me, because I already know the front cabin is half-full and they've blocked...

The week before I had been in Haiti, relearning humility thanks to missionaries and mosquitoes. The missionaries I liked, the mosquitoes, not so much --...

My sleep schedule is still off from the 3:30 a.m. arrival a couple of nights earlier, but it's an early morning wake-up to get to the Guyana taxi station. I fall asleep at 2:00 a.m., and the alarm goes off at 4:45. Nice. By...

Sitting on a six-hour train through Eastern Europe several years ago, I counted up the dozens of countries I had been to and realized I was in reach of one hundred. Doing a quick time-and-money estimate in my journal, I calculated that the cost to get to 100 would be...