by Admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured, Stories
In October, 2018, my wife and I joined a group of trekkers led by Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of Tenzing Norgay, who in 1953 was the first person (along with Ed Hillary) to reach the top of Mount Everest. For our trek in the Kingdom of Mustang, which borders...
by Admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured, Stories
My editors at National Geographic made it clear to me that they did not want a personal reminiscence about Jan Morris after she died on November 20, 2020. They wanted a piece about Jan’s deep and abiding connection to her adopted home, Wales. She was half Welsh and...
by Admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Events, Featured
Saturday, March 6, 2020, 1:30pm PT (4:30p ET). A two-hour class during which Pico and I will share our advice for living a creative life and celebrating creativity through artistic endeavors. Open to all, $60. Learn more and register here:...
by Michael Shapiro | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured
Travel writer and photographer Michael Shapiro takes you from Ireland to Guatemala, from Kenya to Ecuador, and talks about how meeting people all over the world helps build bridges and shatter expectations. This talk was given at the 2017 Sonoma County TEDx event in...
by Michael Shapiro | May 1, 2006 | Blog, Featured, Interviews, Stories, Travel
Michael Shapiro first met Jan Morris in 1992 at a travel writing seminar near San Francisco. “When I first met Jan she seemed like a visitor from another time,” Shapiro says. He interviewed Morris in Llanystumdwy for his book A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers...
by Michael Shapiro | May 28, 2012 | Blog, Featured, Stories
I always thought if I ever floated down the Amazon it’d be in a dugout canoe on a shoestring adventure. But when the editor of a magazine for country club members asked me to join a luxe cruise, of course I went and had a fabulous time. The local guides were the...
