Random Past Posts
Naga New Year on the Chindwin River, Burma This is where my Burma experience really started to get interesting. The core of the trip was 11 days spent on the remote Chindwin River, traveling village-to-village on a temporarily converted rice barge. This is NOT a tourist destination (and More...
WTF! (Welcome To Frisco!) Rocky Mountain Goats at 14,000 feet in central Colorado: I'd like to claim that the mountain goat encounter was the culmination of a heroic, back-country mountain climb to capture shots of a rare and dangerous isolated species. But these mountain goats More...
Patagonia 2013: Trekking the “W” at Torres del Paine One of a group of posts from an"autumn" trip to Patagonia. If you just drive around Torres del Paine National Park in far-southern Chile, you'll be very impressed. But "you ain't seen nothin'" unless you've hiked deep into the More...
Cartagena: Caribbean, Colonial Colombia The movie “Romancing the Stone” was set in and around Cartagena, Colombia. Viewers were introduced to a tropical country full of emeralds and bad guys. Another lasting impression: Michael Douglas taught America to mispronounce "Cartagena" – putting a "NYuh" sound More...
Zurich: The Swiss Just Call it an “Army Knife” In July 2010, in a lake just south of Frankfurt, Scott Humphries, Shane Merz and I joined about 1800 others and jumped into the water for the start of Ironman Germany. About 25 minutes after the start of the More...