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What's New?

In 2010 we reached a milestone
1.5 million
students have seen our programs.

November, 2010. We just received a $2500 grant from Explore Fund set up by The North Face in recognition of our work in inspiring students and sowing the seeds for the next generation of explorers and adventurers.

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We are now North Face partners on www.PlanetExplore.com, a great web portal which lists outdoor activities and events by region throughout the U.S.

Join Planet Explore for free and sign up as a fan of Images of the World. Get info on a variety of outdoor events--hiking, biking, climbing, skiing, camping, and learning. Members can post events and share info on outdoor activities with others! Get off the couch! Never Stop Exploring!

October, 2010. Our newest program, “Bruce & Tass--Unplugged,” is an introspective, philosophical and humorous account of our life and travels.

We answer 25 provocative questions people have asked about our lifestyle, including “Do we have a real job?” and “Do we ever fight?”

"Unplugged" tells the quirky and sometimes outlandish behind the scenes stories of our 34 years together--not only the excitement and adventure, but also thoughtful observations about work, play, faith, love, and laughter, and the importance of finding meaning and purpose in life.

June, 2010. We are home for the summer.

Bruce spent the morning building mountain bike trails with our good friend Joey Klein, a legendary IMBA trail specialist who has designed fun, sustainable trails all over the world.


	We have set the dates for our next trip, bicycling across China, May-August 2011.

Tax- deductable donations to our
Educational Fund
can now be made through the non-profit Brande Foundation to bring our programs to more schools.

Tass is building her confidence and technical skills back up after two years off her mountain bike. Lebanon Hills park in Eagan, Minnesota (a Minneapolis suburb) has one of the funnest mountain bike trails we ride.

Will Steger, Tass, Dan Buettner, Bruce

May 2010. We are finishing up our spring slide show tour in Minneapolis where we enjoy hanging out with friends. Dan Buettner is the bestselling author of The Blue Zone, an important book on living healthier and longer lives. www.bluezones.com

Listen to Dan share the secrets of living to be healthy at 100 years old in this presentation at a TED symposium. www.ted.com/
talks/dan_buettner_how_to_
live_to_be_100.html

Will Steger has done expeditions to the North Pole and Antacrtica, both dogsledding and skiing. His last trip across Greenland has helped raise awareness of the rapidly melting glaciers. Will began keeping detailed journals of weather observations at age 11. He has always been fascinated with studying climate and seasons.

Will plans to do his next arctic expedition in three years--at age 68. He looks forward to another 30 years of exploring and learning about the world. www.willsteger
foundation.org

May 2010. Minnesota home art.

April 2010. The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, Las Vegas, NV, by the architecht Frank Gehry

March 2010. Joshua Tree National Park.

February 5, 2010. Our last day in Reno, Nevada. This is an enthusiastic audience of kindergarten, first and second graders at Elmcrest Elementary. Now we head into California to give programs for the rest of Febuary and March.

Jan 23, 2010. We start our winter slide show tour in Salt Lake City, Utah. Here Bruce is giving a program to 800 9th graders at South Jordan Middle School.

Summer 2009. We begin the huge process of switching to digital projection by scanning and converting thousands of slides to digital format.

September 2009

Our 30th wedding anniversary!

Bruce and Tass
Sept. 6, 1979

October 2009. Bruce & Tass are Keynote Speakers once again at the

Travel Writers & Photographers Workshop, Boulder, CO

August 2009. Tass gets the okay to cycle off her trainer and is back outside six weeks after her second leg surgery.

July 2009. She has a second surgury a year later in Boulder, CO, to remove all three of the giant screws put in her leg after she broke it last year. The screws were clustered together in the top of her tibia, just below the knee. The incision on the kneecap and top of her knee are from the orthoscopic work done to clean up the joint and remove excess scar tissue.

June 2008. Tass in the hospital with a broken leg.

The last few years we have been taking repeated trips to Mexico, and also Guatemala and Belize to update our Rainforests & Maya Ruins program.

Pyramid of Kukulcan, Chichen Itza, Mexico. December 2007.

In October 2006 we spent a month in Guanajuato, one of our favorite cities in Mexico.

We visited the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Michoacan to see the famous Day of the Dead celebrations.

July 4th, 2006 The Black Hills Climbers Coalition (of which Bruce is president) was asked by the Devils Tower staff to take a flag to the top for a special celebration. Tass and Bruce with Uncle Sam on top.