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Marisa Lenhardt is a maverick singer and performer based in the Bay Area. Her dramatic coloratura voice soars with ease into the stratosphere above the musical staff one moment, while plummeting to the rich depths of sonority the next. Not one to stay cloistered in the classical world, Marisa has also performed before before 60,000 rabid Raiders fans at the Oakland Coliseum. For an event at San Jose City Hall she rode her motorcycle down the steps and whipped off her helmet before singing. She has performed often at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, enchanting hushed crowds at ceremonial temple burns and also riding a zipline into the rough and tumble Thunderdome to perform her own composition of operatic vocal pyrotechnics. How does she balance these activities with a full-time job in high-technology? This is a three-part interview.
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In 1974 Ted Simon set out on a round-the-word motorcycle journey. His account of the four-year odyssey, Jupiter's Travels, has long been "the" classic motorcycle travel tale. For me this tales holds an invaluable lesson: "The interruptions are the journey." Now, at the age of 69, Ted retraces his journey on a two and a half year journey. The delightful Dreaming of Jupiter is the tale of that adventure.

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We'll talk with the author of Driving to the End of the World about his solo journey from Tuscon, Arizona through Latin America to Tierra del Fuego; his company, Portable Professional, and his transition from mild-mannered dentist to uber-traveling businessman.

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Laureen is a writer, a professional editor, a scuba instructor, a beginning sailor, a traveler, and an obsessive researcher who's chiefly focused on, and delighted with, her husband Jason and her sons Rowan (5) and Kestrel (2). In July of 2006 Laureen and her husband found themselves garden-variety desk-driving SUV-owning suburbanites, so they did the obvious thing and sold their house to live as a family on a catamaran in the Emeryville harbor.

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Rita Golden Gelman moves through the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and is constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities. She writes children's books and has lived comfotably on as little as ten thousand dollars a year in the USA and abroad.

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