In the summer of 2005, Cornell men's lacrosse player Mike Pisco '06 took a service trip to Ocotal, Nicaragua as part of the Cornell Traditions program. At the time, the trip to teach English and share his love of lacrosse had a profound impact on the All-Ivy defenseman. But little did he know that the trip would plant the seed for a future business and a whole new way of life.  
 
Just short of eight years later, Pisco was visiting his parents with his wife, former Big Red volleyball player Kathryn, CALS '05. On the visit, he saw a high school friend, now a financial adviser that told the couple about a client who was quitting his job to travel the world for a year. The next day, on the plane ride back to Chicago, Kathryn expressed a thought that would set the Piscos on a new path.
 
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