A friend of ours is starting a new business. I recently spent a morning with the local fishermen, who had some things to teach those seeking business success. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/fishinglessons.pdf .
Since I didn’t have much else going on, I also wrote a couple of books last year. The first, How The World Works, is a book of aphorisms, insights and life lessons inspired by my daughter asking me to teach…
A brief update: Late Oct/November 2008: Ecuador – Cuenca, Otavalo & Quito Mid-Nov to early Jan 2009: Back in the USA for the holidays. We came into JFK and met my cousin and his girlfriend for dinner. After the hugs…
Hello. My name is Iggy and I’ll be your guide today. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/theguide.pdf .
It was pointed out on a forum I participate in that while I am advocating conservation and energy independence, we live in a vehicle that is not all that fuel effecient. I took that as a valid observation and decided to…
Here’s some additional oil factoids: Source: DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/oil.html Source: DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
The United States of America imports 13,468,000 barrels—565,656,000 gallons—of petroleum products. Every day. America imports 2,163,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from Persian Gulf countries. Every day. America imports 5,980,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products…
Is what you know true? Is what you believe to be true actually, in fact true? Click here to find out some of the answer: www.hackneys.com/docs/trueorfalse.pdf .
PDF version of this document is here: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/onelapofamerica.pdf Last year I met a European traveler in Argentina who spent six weeks in the United States a few years earlier. His six week visit gave him, in his opinion, total…
I spent my New Year’s Eve in a surgical suite. Click here to learn how you can avoid the same fate: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/aworthwhileresolution.pdf Happy New Year. Now go get checked.