This website illuminates my life and adventures, focusing on five areas, Adventure, Love, Art & Music, Economy and Philosophy. To these five areas, I have purposefully dedicated my life. This notion emanated from my belief that the human experience is driven by five innate momentums: physical, sexual, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. So, I desired to study, experience and understand these subjects, with the objective to understand not only the world around me, but to understand myself as well. Thus, these five areas of study match my innate momentums: adventure-physical, love-sexual , art & music-emotional, economy-intellectual, and philosophy-spiritual. This quest has led me to over 2450 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 with me to see the world as I see it, if you will be so kind. Join me in re-examining our world and our selves, to contemplate how we can move to 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
Slovenia, Vipava Prov, Flower
Slovenia, Oplotnica Prov, Vineyards
Turkey, Mardin Prov, Tea Glasses
Seram, Pipina Calls Deer, 2006 - On my third venture into the rain forests of Seram, I heard about Pipina. Her brother, Hatu Upu, had died two years earlier. i traveled ten hours on foot from Manusela to meet her. On the way, I felt as if she was aware that I was coming. I asked myself, "Does that mean she had died and it is her spirit that is aware of me?" Half way to Kanikeh, in Sulamena, a young man told us she'd died. But when I got to Kanikeh, It so happened that she was in Kanikeh. She told me she had dreamt of my arrival. The next day, we met her at her 'rumah gantung', or raised house, about an hour away in the direction of Mount Binaya. She took me to her brother's grave and spoke to him and introduced me to his spirit. Hatu Upu could not speak back, she said, as he was dead. He could only respond to her in her dreams. Hatu Upu was renown for his ability to call deer and pigs. She said she could also. When I asked her to do so, she said the deer would not come because I was there. I asked her to do so anyway. About ten minutes later, I heard what must have been a deer not far off, stepping on dried bamboo. One of my guides, Edi, heard another deer off in the opposite direction. Deer droppings all over her garden evidenced that deer often frequented her house.
Vietnam, Nghe An Prov, Temple Sculpture Horse -
Thailand, Phetchaburi Prov, Seaside Temple
Israel, Southern Prov, Masada At Night
UK, North East Lincolnshire Prov, Row Of Trees
Slovenia, Kostel, Girl With Flowers In Rain, 2006 - On my Spring 2006 trip to Slovenia, I went to every one of 193 obcina (or municipal districts) in Slovenia, my grandparent's homeland. Kostel Obcina was one of the more out-of-the-way places to visit. I was walking to a high point lookout, as mists, clouds and sunlight moved across the sky, slithering into the crevices and valleys. A big rain came, I hurried to the top, then walked back. Here, a girl, still wet from the rain, walks with flowers._Prov,_Iris,_2009,_IMG_3611-700x1050.jpg)
UK, Croydon (London) Prov, Iris