Karin Muller's "Perilous Journeys"

This Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer and adventurer set out to travel the world's historic highways.  She is an expert lecturer for the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian.  Her high-energy, multi-media performance is guaranteed to inspire your spirit of adventure, with insights into world traveling that few ever experience.

Karin's first expedition took her to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, which enabled her to produce a PBS television special, "Hitchhiking Vietnam," and a companion book by Globe Pequot Press of the same name.

Her second expecdition took her to the Inca Road, a 4,000-mile trek from Quito, Ecuador to Santiago, Chile, resulting in a telelvision series, "Along the Inca Road" for National Geographic and a book published by the Adventure Press.

Muller's third adventure took her to Japan, where she lived with a pre-Buddhist mountain ascetic cult, joined a samurai-mounted archery team, and completed a 1,300-kilometer pilgrimage around Shikoku.  This journey was published in "Japanland:  A Year in Search of Wa," as both a documentary series and book.

Karin is founder of a nonprofit organization, Take 2, where she provides raw film footage to schools, that tells beautiful and positive stories of people from a variety of cultures in war-torn countries.  Students can then produce their own films and stories.