Posted at 03/04/2005 by Maoz Inon. (No Title) I feel live, I feel in love. I wake up too early in the morning; I can hardly fall asleep at night. If my brain had a temperature gauge it will be on the red… I do too much thinking & planning! This is my third blog but the first one that is not about traveling. I hope I'll enjoy it as I did writing the other two. I really like to get feedbacks so feel free to send me what ever you think I got back from my 2004 world tour month and a half ago a different man then the one that started the tour. I want to believe that I'm a better human being now but that will be too simple. I came back to Israel with a list of 12 things that I can or want to do when I get over the jet lag. I won't count them all here 'cause some are still confidential, but here are the one that aren't:
too difficult. If you want to know more about my state of mind in that time click So you can see that I was very confused, and didn't know which direction to go… What I did know is that I don't want to work for no one but myself and for the values that I believe in. I was thinking to form a working group with 4-5 people that I trust and highly appreciate. All 5, people that I would hire if I had my own company, So I thought, if we join forces now we will have more chances to actually own our own company… It didn't work out. Some people weren't as I remembered them, one said that he want to work solo and My sister said it's a great idea…I think so too, but for now reality proved me that it can't work. I started a meeting session with friends and family hoping to focus and find my way. This Blog is going to be about that way, which I don't know where it will lead me; I do hope it will to be adventures and interesting. I mean both: the way and the blog. I must say that I'm the luckiest guy to have a supporting partner as one can only dream on. I'm talking about S (Shlomit) of course. We decided that I will take few months to explore my ideas and options before looking for an office job. Few days before I got back home S met to American guys that wanted to hike the INT. The connection started after they read my trail journal and we had some email corresponding. S met them in Tel Aviv and supplied them with Maps & Tips. They will take a big part in my decision making process. I'm still writing about staff that happened few weeks from now, and I want to get as soon as possible to the now. I will do it now. Nazareth Backpacker - Love & Peace in the Middle East Yes, S and I are going to open the first New-Zealand style Backpacker in Israel. I will quote now from my power point presentation, though it's much better with the picture:
is being delivered. How did I get this idea of opening a BP in Nazareth? It all started with hiking the INT in April 2004. S and I enjoyed the trail and the trail life very much. Then we went to our WT and hiked 500 mile along the PCT. We enjoyed the trail life even more. We were also sure that the INT is as good trail as any other and that it should be famous world wide. The S. America tour, staying in hostel and BP's, made us think about open our own BP. We were highly inspired by 2 places: The Black Sheep Inn (Ecuador) and the Way Inn (Peru). Both places are own and run by foreigners, people that once were backpacking around S. America just as we were. It was obvious to see how much the owners were dedicate to there business and to the environment and communities they chose to live in. From here we started to talk about owning our own BP. We had few fundamental principals: It need to be on the INT route and since we wanted the place to impact as many people as possible we figured that an Arab village/town would be the place to do it. There is more then one Arab town along the trail, but since we want it to attract as many as possible the City of Nazareth stood high above all the other option. All this brainstorming happened back in S. America and with out even being to Nazareth even once before. We talk to some of you guys, those who know us from those days, but it was just a rough plan back then. |