September 25 – November 3, 2019 “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.” Mark Twain Boom. A deep and thunderous thud echoes throughout the openness of the desert and momentarily fills its void. “This is a big tanking practice area for the...
Turkey. Without a Plan
May 8, 2019 "...talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time..." Jack Johnson from "What You Thought You Need" Shortly before 5 a.m., the morning call to prayer jars me from my otherwise listless slumber. I’m tired. I’m laying in bed in a fancy...
…We’re Going on an Adventure
Morocco April 5 – 19, 2019 I’ve been here before. Not here specifically, but here, in a similar precarious situation, with my two like minded world exploring friends, in a place that is not in any guide book or at the end of a bus route. We have traveled through 5...
One More
July 27 – Aug 2 “Call me. No Tajikistan.” was the brief and direct message I saw when I turned on my phone for the first time in nearly 1 week, a curious note from my brother Bobby back in the US. I had just come down from the mountains to a tiny village and was...
Peaks and Valleys
July 17 - 26, 2018 A dilapidated green Lada with a cow trailer and 1 cow in tow comes lumbering and creaking down the dry and desolate road. The Lada is a ubiquitous Soviet era economy car from the 70’s and 80’s. If people think old Volvo’s are boxy and unstylish,...
Kyrgyzstan? Where Is That…and Why Are You Going There?
July 7 – 14, 2018 “I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” -John Muir I’m back. I can tell myself this a...