Before coming to trek the Simien Mountains you have already been in Ethiopia for at least a few days so you know some basic issues that may arise with communication, scheduling, and transport. We had many questions about how to organize when we arrived in Gondar and worked it out but hopefully this will save … Continue reading
Bahir dar, Ethiopia, is allegedly a great place to relax after traveling Ethiopia for a while. I don’t find it that way for several reasons and last night gave me another. As I lay awake at midnight listening to the dogs howling and barking (where are they in the daytime?), I noticed some movement. The … Continue reading
Photography,travel, BBQ, FARC, parks, biking, aurora borealis, boobies, and wine… After a year of posting I thought I would share the top 7 posts on the blog. I want to thank all of the growing supporters for the dialogue and comments. It’s been an eye opening experience in terms of writing but more about communicating … Continue reading
Traveling in South America, to ME, has changed dramatically in the interim years between my first trip there in 1999-2000 and my trip there in 2012-2013. I noticed some of these changed during my 2009 travels but they stood out stronger more recently. Music. Though it may be comforting to some, I feel that the … Continue reading
I’d been to a lot of countries before my bicycle tour in Myanmar (Burma). I thought I had seen the extremes. Poverty, wealth, imperialism, religion, oppression, joy, generosity, unrest, injustice, ignorance, and so on. Certainly Myanmar had it all and then some. Only in Cuba before Myanmar had I seen a culture so very far … Continue reading
Warning: Do not swim with marine mammals! Though seals, otters, polar bears, and sea lions are cute and cuddly, you don’t just jump in the water and swim with them, that is, until you travel the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Sea lions are the only marine mammal other than whales you are likely to find … Continue reading
The sea lions in the photo below were hauled out before we flushed them… …into the water. I was working as a biological technician on an Exxon-Valdez oil spill recovery project in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska. I won’t get in to the gloom and doom of the spill itself,rather, the inspiration … Continue reading
This is small compilation of videos I shot in our way South from the North Slope of Alaska after our hunting adventure. If you have never been to Alaska or on this highway his gives you a pretty good sample of the landscape and gives you a pretty good feel for Northern Alaska in the … Continue reading
We are all about oil in Alaska. Whether you are pro- or anti-development, taxes from oil revenues provide 90% of Alaska’s state budget. Driving North on the Dalton Hwy, or “Haul Road” as it is locally called the trans-Alaska oil pipeline is ubiquitous. The road was/is used to supply the oil fields all over the … Continue reading
Orca sightings can be are event even in Alaskan waters, at least they have been for me given the amount of time I have spent on the water. I saw these en route to the Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge in Kenai Fjords National Park. Video links are below. Resident orcas tend to have diets that … Continue reading
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