I apologize my relative quiet on the blogging front. Your regular dose of Tyler was most likely a highlight of your day, but I have been consumed with fundraising for PlansForUs. Next week I will share our fundraising deck, so that you can have a better sense of what we are thinking from a long term perspective.

Having grown up amidst relative affluence I had actually, silly me, thought that the fundraising would be a piece of cake…not the case. Needless to say, I am learning a ton and reaching deeply into my network which has been really great, as I have been able to reconnect with some folks that I had not spoken to in some time.

As for the first part of my title…Do you ever watch No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain? It is on the National Geographic channel and it is absolutely brilliant. I did not know who Anthony Bourdain was until I saw him as a judge on Top Chef. When I saw that he had a show, I figured it would be worth putting on the DVR. A couple shows came and went and then I sat down and watched one. Woah, it’s awesome.

In the show, Tony travels to locales foreign and domestic eating the local food with a heavy focus on street food. The characters that he meets and the food that he eats by adopting this very local style of travel is inspiring. I remember when my wife and I were in Vienna, Austria for a friend’s wedding and yearned to break out from the tourist district and get into the real, local style of Vienna. It is that same yearning that is realized every week on No Reservations.

If you like food and travel then I think you’ll love this show…if you don’t, well then maybe this show is not for you.

by Tyler, CEO