Tanzania: Part Two
I was very sad to be leaving Alli behind. I’ve traveled without her before but a place like this, Tanzania, just seemed so far away. My traveling companions were mostly new to me, my mother (whom I know very well of course) and five other women from her church, all in Tanzania to see for [...]
Tanzania: Part One
Jeremiah and I stood waiting outside the blue Landrover. It had overheated and the others had gone ahead in the other truck in the hopes of finding a rope to tow us out with. My second day in Tanzania and I was broken down on the side of the road in the Ngorongoro Crater, an [...]
A Matter of Time: Yellowstone National Park
I could not catch my breath. I couldn’t go twenty paces without needing to stop and rest. The trail was uphill and pretty steep, but I had only walked a few hundred yards. I had been backpacking in Glacier National Park for a week and a half before coming here. In Glacier I was carrying [...]
Time Well Spent: Glacier National Park
There are not many glaciers left in Glacier National Park. What remains is a handful of alpine glaciers grasping tightly to the sides of mountains. Each spring they shrink a little smaller, soon they will be gone. But this is the direction things have been going in for a long time. The park is not [...]
And the Winner is…
I tallied all the votes from So Many Places, So Little Time; Ecuador, Greenland, and Borneo came out on top. This narrowed the choice for me and got me closer to a decision. As much as I want to see Ecuador and visit the Galapagos Islands I have always had reservations; tourism is one of [...]
So Many Places, So Little Time
Over the past decade I have traveled to a lot of places and taken a lot of pictures, and since I began doing this I have always had the desire to share those pictures and travels with anyone who was willing to look and listen. There isn’t much else that makes me happier. Now, as [...]
Japanese Dream
Japan’s cities are wonderlands of light, sound, entertainment, and infrastructure, all held together by the most orderly way of being. Granted, I didn’t see the entire country, nor did I spend nearly enough time there to truly get to know it. But I spent two weeks between three of its major cities; Tokyo, Kyoto, and [...]
Alaskan Adventure
I often speak of adventure. I read the stories of Scott and Shackleton and I imagine my travels to be a distant homage to those great explorers. I dream of discovery, and I become frustrated with realizations of how little there is left for someone like me to uncover, but this trip was different. A [...]
