Day 1 - The Three Amigoes hit London

Something interesting is happening with several 40 – 50 something guys, who first ended up on a soccer (football) team together, then became business partners, http://www.glsdezign.com/, started a charity and now are in Heathrow airport on their way to Ethiopia.

Two years ago Zinabu and Daniel were on the same soccer team and began talking together about developing Canada-Ethiopia charity and business activities. This year, Gregory and Harrison joined the team. Daniel and Gregory got talking, with synchronicities popping up like Gregory already being convinced he was going to Africa before we started talking. Then Daniel and Gregory invited Harrison, who's also in the design business and an entrepreneur to join in. Once Zinabu saw what was happening with Daniel, Gregory and Harrison, then he wanted in. What he contributed to this business were his contacts and investments in Ethiopia, and Gregory's company GLS dezign took on some new partners and a new mission: to do good business but also to simply do good, inspired by David Berman's vision as enunciated by example in Do Good Design. In fact David Berman Communications is one of the new GLS dezign business partners.

Harrison is running the Ottawa arm of GLS dezign for his partners while they go to Ethiopia for 3 weeks. So today, day 1, Gregory (behind the camera) Daniel and Zinabu went and explored Pickadilly Circus, taking advantage of our 15 hours between flights at Heathrow. Greg had never seen London before so after arriving at 1 am Ottawa time and grabbing a hour or so of sleep on airport benches we included our sortie in this admittedly low energy day. We will eventually fly out by 4:30pm Ottawa time (22 hrs so far) and arriving in Addis at 7:20am Perhaps exhaustion will make us better sleepers on the 2nd flight!! :) All told it will be 28 hours of travel and more than 2 days without getting to bed.

I will be posting pretty regularly, and also putting pics up on Facebook. So over and out for now for these "it's time to do something really different" trip, guys who are remaking themselves, remaking their company, and looking to do their bit to make the world a better place.

Daniel Berg