This website illuminates my life and adventures. My longing for freedom has led me to over 2600 of the world’s 3978 provinces, to every country on earth and to the summit of the highest peak on each continent (thank heaven for good weather!). In my travels, I learned to respect the intelligence and ingenuity of people of all races and callings both past and present. Come see the world as I see it: as a peaceful place, full of nature and beauty. With the right spirit and intent, we can make our world a virtual Garden of Eden.
DISTINCTIONS: BBC 2017 Travel Pioneer • Journal Articles • Explorer’s Club Flag Expeditions
World Parks Project • Walk Across South America • Jeff Shea Travel Map
Vietnam, Hai Phong Prov, House Boats
Slovenia, Oplotnica Prov, Firewood
Vietnam, An Giang Prov, Plates
Turkey, Gumushane Prov, Girl
UK, Rhondda Cynon Taff Prov, Go Slow Caterpillar
Seram, Dragonfly, 2006 - On the walk from Ilela Mariena to Kanikeh, deep in the jungle, we stopped for lunch. While my guides cut up deer meat, I sat in the shallows of a stream photographing insects. Here a dragonfly sits on a floating leaf in the sun.
Vietnam, TienGiang Prov, BoatHouseScene
Greenland, Warming Island, off coast of Liverpool Land, Dennis Schmitt Leads Across Glacier, 2006 - On the afternoon of Sept 9. 2006, after the storm, Dennis leads a walk across the glacier to a point just above the new strait marking the birth of the world's newest island, a result of Global Warming.
Romania, Sighisoara, Dracula's House, 1997 - This is really supposed to be where Dracula lived, centuries ago, in the small town of Sighisoara. I walked from Cluj Napoca to Sighisoara, fell in love there with a woman who I never had, but ended up with her girlfriend. Then I walked on to Brasov, where Dracula's castle was supposed to be. 
Tanzania, Lioness and Cubs, 1984 - My first visit to Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania was thrilling. The largest permanent concentration of wildlife in Africa lives in the floor of the 20-kilometer diameter caldera, an ancient, mammoth collapsed volcano. Here, a mother and her two cubs relax.