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HORIZON & CO.
take a radical sabbatical
IN THE UNITED STATES & WORLDWIDE
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
—Yogi Berra
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Rather than supplying information—the purpose of most intellectual sojourns—a “rad-
ical sabbatical” is designed to seek information. From you. You'll be asked the kinds of ques-
tions that tend to get pushed to the back burner in our busy lives: “What do you stand for?”
“Why are you here?” “What makes you want to get on the table and dance?”
Radical sabbaticals are offered by Horizon & Co., a high-end boutique travel company.
Its goal is to transport its customers—not in the obvious, prosaic sense, but in a more lyrical,
metaphysical way. For example, on Horizon's “Diamond Adventures” trip, customers liter-
ally fly into the tundra of the Northwest Territories to scout for diamonds. (In case you hadn't
heard, diamonds were discovered on the shores of the Northern Territories' Point Lake in
1991. There were enough pristine-quality specimens to propel Canada into third place in the
diamond-production rankings.) Not only do you learn about diamond processing, but you also
dogsled, stay in a wilderness lodge, and dine on such delicacies as musk oxen and arctic char.
Horizon's radical sabbaticals, designed to push people out of their comfort zones, are led
by Steve Zikman, a former attorney who quit his high-powered career to take a three-year,
round-the-world escapade. The author of
The Power of Travel
and
Chicken Soup for the Trav-
eler's Soul,
Zikman believes that travel, approached properly, is the catalyst for unlocking cre-
ative potential and innovative thinking. He says that his trips take people where convention-
al thinking just doesn't work. They're designed for people who are at a crossroads, people
