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    It’s Official – The Bishop+Rook Family Continues To Grow

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    Over a year and a half ago I stepped away from advertising and branding to to pursue something I had always wanted to do: grow a company of my own, develop a brand from the ground up, and be responsible for my own professional destiny. I thought it was going to be a simple creative…

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    Lessons From A Year Spent Outside The World of Advertising

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    A year ago, I stepped away from the world of advertising and marketing (with the exception of a few projects here and there) to focus my energy on building a buisness (and brand) of my own. I started a company called Bishop+Rook – which builds and restores vintage Land Rover Defenders – offering products and…

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    The Friends We Meet, The Lives We Touch

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    My travels have taken me far from home; across oceans, continents, mountain ranges and to distant lands. I am the outsider in these voyages. I leave my friends, family and love interests behind in my quest to find something inspirational, the precious diamond and experience that as a child I could only read about. I…

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    The Near-Death Railway of Burma (Revisited)

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    This is a post from the archives of my former travel blog, UnrealTravels.com.  It was published in a variety of places, including the PilotGuides website (which I did some community/forum development work for several years/decades ago).  A recent article on Jalopnik about the joyless experience of American Amtrak service lead me to re-publish it. NOTE:…

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