Alex Schenker

Casa Divina is a cloud forest retreat in the middle of the Ecuadorian jungle near the town of Mindo. It is run by a couple – Molly, who hails from the bay area in Northern California; and Efrain, a Mindo native and lifelong naturalist. They both share a love of nature and work hard to help the Mindo community preserve the cloud forest. They are very aware of the benefits of a sustainable economy, and therefore grow and use local ingredients, and run their lodge in harmony with their surroundings…

Since the Mayan calendar is based on cycles, December 21, 2012 merely indicates the end of a cycle that began on August 11, 3114 BC. While there are wild interpretations as to what this date means, and many holiday resorts are booked out on this day, there is no evidence from any Mayan literature suggesting that the world will come to an end…

Uh oh – you just took a bucketful of honeymoon photos and towards the end of the trip your friend borrows the camera and accidentally formats the memory card. Ahhhhh!!! Don’t freak out (yet). Memory cards work similar to the way computer hard drives do – or any solid state disk for that matter. Just like data on computers can be restored, so can data on memory cards. Here’s how to use Remo in case in case you accidentally erased the photos on your memory card…

Do you ever ponder our purpose? What are we doing on this planet? Have you ever taken a break from the rigorous, sometimes monotonous, fast moving, non-stop pace of life that keeps us plugging away and moving forward, and taken a moment to reflect on the bigger picture?…