Mission:
My mission is to take you around the world and/or bring the world around to you.  Of Global Interest Adventure Travel is serving your need to experience the world.

Bringing you around the world:
Twice a year, I organize and lead customized, small group tours trekking and exploring in the Himalayas in Nepal. I also lead trips to Spain, Hungary, Peru and anywhere anyone wants to go.

Bringing the world around to you:
When I am not traveling, I operate a small bed and breakfast in my home which I call the Eighth Street Trekkers’ Lodge B&B.  The house has a Himalayan theme and the guest room is decorated with items from Nepal.  At occasional weekend sales, I sell fair trade imports from Nepal in the Himalayan Bazaar in my Garage.  I often give talks and workshops about cultural diversity, the Himalayas, Everest, Nepal, Spain, Hungary, Peru, the Peace Corps and other topics at area schools and for community groups.  My home is the Everything's Art Gallery where I exhibit and sell my artwork, mostly paintings, drawings and photographs.  The E-mail Adventure Journal is the journal I keep during my trips abroad which I send to my E-mail Mailing List.  I also maintain the Of Global Interest Random Acts of Kindness Fund which benefits Nepalese children and families in Nepal.

Bio
Heather O’Neal grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  After high school, she attended Washtenaw Community College for one year and continued studying at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.  She spent her junior year in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1986, wrote a book about her adventures and learned to speak Nepali.  Heather graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1989 with a degree in English and South Asian Studies.  She joined the Peace Corps in 1990 and spent two years teaching English and learning Hungarian in Salgótarján, Hungary just after the fall of the Iron Curtain.  As part of the Returned Peace Corps Fellows Program, Heather completed a masters degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso while teaching English as a Second Language for four years in El Paso, Texas.  In 1997 Heather spent one year learning Spanish and teaching English at the American School of Madrid in Spain.  The next year she quit her job to finally travel back to Nepal.  In 2000 Heather started her company, Of Global Interest Adventure Travel.  Since that time, she has organized and led several professional tours to Nepal, including one Mt. Everest expedition.