If you can find that sweet spot where your feet lie perfectly between the driver’s and passenger’s seats, and you fold down the seat in...

I type this at a crooked table drinking lukewarm lager, with stale cigarette smoke tangling on a thick ocean breeze as it sticks to my face.

Something I love about Mozambique is how Mozambicans love the water. There are a lot of people who only see the a river or the sea as a...

Seasons change in Mozambique, but if you just look at it, with its year-round emerald green palm trees and tangled patches of flowers,...

Or, at least, made being trapped in the Himalayas after an avalanche a bit more tolerable. Somehow, a Snickers bar is most satisfying...

I recognize, and apologize for, my pretty much complete absence from this blog for the past however-many-months. Every time I would go to...

Rooftop bars where white-bearded expats sit in woven hats amongst young Brits in polos, smoking their long cigarettes and drinking...

Picture this. In five days of insanity, you traveled to the mountainous interior of Java, Indonesia. You summited two active volcanos,...

I guess you had to die eventually. I just never thought it would happen while I’m routinely untangling you from the ropes on top of a 4X4...

Sometimes, I don’t take out my camera. It doesn’t happen that often, but when it does, it’s usually for the same reason, and happens in...

I was supposed to go to Indonesia four days ago. My final group of clients left Zambia, and I was supposed to pick myself up and get on a...

When I was a teenager, I was hiking down a rocky trail on a small mountain in northern Tanzania when I tripped and landed straight on a...

Shifts that come in the form of compassion; in the form of Moroccan mint tea. When I think of my first visit to Morocco years ago, I...

The first stop on a journey around the world. It’s a Friday afternoon and I’m sitting at a cafe overlooking the main historic square of...

Let's back up to the beginning. I was standing by the mailbox. There was an open envelope in my hand and a letter in the other, with the...

Every once in awhile, this strange thing happens. You arrive somewhere — whether by boat, horseback, bus, or in this case, snowshoe — and...

It was my final night in the Arctic. We hiked for two miles through heavy snow under the bent limbs of silver trees. At around midnight,...

Kolkata, India was the first place that showed me that the world doesn’t have to be exactly what I want it to be.