Pico Iyer

And, you know, at the end of the book, there's a section where you acknowledge the people who helped you with the book.

And the first person in that section that you mentioned is Pico Iyer, who actually also wrote the forward for the book.

And I just want to bring up what you share about him, this celebrated author.

You share that his mentorship guided me into the life of stillness required to listen to the space between thoughts.

Blue Highways was a big influence to me just because it sort of showed me that this van life was... was possible before there was a term called hashtag van life.

And then when I was traveling around Asia, I really loved Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer because his was a travel book about Asia that acknowledged that people in Asia play baseball and they watch movies like Rambo.

And it just felt really relatable.

Yeah, it's really fun.

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Born in 1957 in Oxford, England to Indian parents, Pico Iyer was a global soul before he could even talk.

When he was seven, his family moved half a world away to Santa Barbara, California.

By the time he was nine, he was flying alone up to six times a year to boarding school in England.