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
Greenland, Warming Island, off coast of Liverpool Land, The Team of (L to R) John Rudolph, John Collins Rudolph, Dennis Schmitt, Eric Ristau, and Jeff Shea, 2006 - Left to right are John Rudolph, his son, John Collins Rudolph, Dennis Schmitt (the discoverer of Warming Island), Eric Ristau (the expedition's film maker) and myself, Jeff Shea. Behind and below us in the distance is the strait forming the new island. The continuity of the waterway is visually interrupted by the mountain forming the three pinnalced peaks above John Rudolph's head, but the waterway itself is continuous.
Nepal, Barber, 1984 - This man gets a shave high in the mountains.
Tanzania, Jeff Shea On Bus, 1984 - Gabrielle and I traveled by bus, riverboat, dhow, train, airplane and on foot. Here, I relax on a bus, studying my map of Africa.
Er Che Du Ma eventually left her small village near Moshuo Lake on the border between Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China for school in the big city of Kunming. In the time of her grandmother, the women did not marry and were the landowners._Prov,_Hampton_Court_Unicorn,_2009,_IMG_3762-700x834.jpg)
UK, Kingston upon Thames (London) Prov, Hampton Court Unicorn
Turkey, Manisa Prov, Farm House
Congo Zaire, Barge Hits Land, 1984 - The river boat plying down to Kinshasa, with all its attendant barges tied on, hit an island in the middle of the river, causing curiosity among the passengers. The captain backed her off and continued down river.
Myanmar, Shan Prov, Rice Hats
Turkey, Istanbul Prov, The Tea Kettle Of Saniye
Myanmar, Unknown Prov, Water Scene