The Big Idea

This year my wife and I decided to use our vacation to do something different. We are still going to tour a beautiful country, visit with colorful locals, and do interesting things. But this time, we will use our vacation as an experiment-- an experiment in personal power and social change.

The idea is simple. Instead of going on vacation just for ourselves, we will find a charity we believe in that works in the country we want to visit. We will spend up to a year raising money locally to donate to the charity. And finally using our own money we will visit the recipients, document what we see and share the results.

I call it an experiment because I don’t know how it will go. I don’t know how much money we will raise. I am not sure how to raise it. I don’t know if we will make new friends or alienate our current friends. I don’t know if we will have a fun and rewarding vacation or make a mess of things and let people down. I have no idea. But it will be interesting to find out.