Mad Apples at The Yummy Fruit Company
Here’s a lesson in trust. For most of my stops on the World Piece tour I have quite a few things planned, scheduled and confirmed on the calendar. For New Zealand, however, my first stop of my three-month journey, I left things a bit, shall we say, loose. I knew I wanted to teach a […]
A Few New Zealand Pie Recipes
New Zealand gas stations don’t just sell fuel for cars. The pie display the BP gas station — or petrol station as they say in NZ. If there is one thing I’ve learned on my World Piece journey so far, it’s that New Zealand loves pie. Kiwis (as New Zealanders are affectionately called) love pie […]
World Piece: Day One, Arriving in New Zealand
In all my years of traveling internationally, I have never had such a hard time saying goodbye to my parents. They have been driving me to the airport since my first trip overseas 30 years ago. I have always traveled solo and regardless of where I was traveling to — Europe, Thailand, Kenya — I […]
World Piece Planning: Answers to Your FAQs
It’s 6AM and I am sitting in the guest bed at my parents’ apartment in Redondo Beach, California. They are still asleep but I am wide awake. I still have a lot to do before I leave U.S. soil tomorrow. One of the things I wanted to do before jetting off (for my first stop […]
World Piece Gets a Little Press
At KRUU-FM, solar-powered radio, in Fairfield, Iowa.With one of my favorite hosts, Steve Boss of “Great Taste.” While I consider my World Piece journey a personal one, it is also nice to have people — and sometimes the media — take notice. I say “nice” mainly because I hope the effort I am making will […]
Made it to Iowa…Only to Face Forgotten Perils
We made it to Iowa. We may have prevailed over all those near disasters getting from LA to here, but even after only six months away, I had forgotten how perilous living in Iowa can be! It’s the little things that can kill you. I arrived to a home-cooked meal of Ham Balls. I wrote about […]
The World Needs More Pie Store is Now Open!
The demand for World Piece aprons and t-shirts was so high, I created a store on Cafe Press. I even added a World Piece coffee mug. Your purchase will help fund my round-the-world journey. So not only will you help make the world a better place, you’ll look cool wearing this hand-drawn artwork made just […]
World Piece Kicks Off with an Epic Trans-American RV Road Trip
America the Beautiful — as seen through an RV windshield. If you are ever going to drive your RV cross country and get a severe toothache in the middle of a hail storm, the best possible place to pull off the interstate is Fruita, Colorado. Or so I learned on my way to Iowa this […]
Rescuing The Beast — and Revisiting its History
Today I was planning on writing about the evolution of a logo — the World Piece logo, which turned out so beautifully thanks to a certain artist friend who you’ve previously read about on this blog. But the day didn’t go exactly as I had planned. And thus, instead of the logo, I can’t stop […]
Planning, Packing and Paring Down: Does It Spark Joy?
I leave on my round-the-world trip one month from today (though it really begins in just 2-½ weeks with my drive to Iowa to drop off my dog Jack at “summer camp.”) I am excited, yes, but I am also bogged down in planning and packing. And neither of those things are the most enjoyable […]