Nolan Firth

 Most of us can think back to a memorable date in our past. Maybe this specific date is your anniversary with a loved one, a birthday, or possibly even the date you bought your first home. For Alex Honnold, a professional rock climber, that memorable date is June 3, 2017. On this day, Alex climbed El Capitan, a 3,000 foot vertical rock in Yosemite National Park. This wasn't your regular rock climb. Alex free soloed this mountain, meaning he did not use any ropes, or other safety precautions. Yes, you heard that right.  Alex Honnold came up with this crazy, yet doable idea in his mind. He wanted to be the first person to free solo El Capitan. Going into this, many people have tried to do this exact climb, and Alex knew that. 25 people have fallen to their death in an attemt to climb El Capitan.  In 2015 Alex and his film crew started documenting this process of working himself up to a free solo climb. His film crew consisted of some of his very close friends in which he ha...

 Imagine that you are 50 years old working in the corporate world when all of the sudden you have an extremely unusual idea. You want to escape reality and live what to you is the perfect life. For many adults 50 and older, they look forward to watching their grand kids grow and develop, their annaul vacations, and fires with their family.  For Mario Salcedo, a single gentleman in his late 60s, his perfect life doesn't contain any of these usual ideas. He lives his life on a cruise ship. For nearly 7,000 nights (19 years), Mario has been cruising nonstop. Many employees on these cruise ships know him personally now due to the fact of how much they see him on occasion. One employee even knows his exact breakfast order and has it ready for him every morning.  Mario seems to be extremely happy. He is living his dream. Who wouldn't want to live out their life long dream?  He seems to make many friends on these cruises, with some who have the same love for cruising as him...