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, Zrece Prov, Country Church
Slovenia, Kocevje Prov, Landscape
Slovenia, Ribnica Prov, Ant On Blossom
USA, Alaska, Denali Night Walk, 1993 - On our last night on our Mount Denali climb, Fred Zalokar, Sean Crom and I walked all night to get back to the landing strip on the glacier. Here we traverse frozen, crevasse-ridden fields under the moonlight.
Route Map Across the Atacama, 2012
Chile, Antofagasta Province (Región)
In 2012, I walked across the Atacama desert. For the first nine days, I was accompanied by writer/journalist John H. Richardson. This trip was designed to link the coast of South America at Antofagasta, Chile to Socaire, my starting point two years earler on my walk across the South American Altiplano. (See song Over for further explanation.) John and I pulled carts with water in them. Lots of water. We each started with 140 liters, which weighs 140 kilograms or 308 pounds of water in each cart. As soon as we hit sandy road, much of this was jettisoned. John and I had philosophical discussions on the way.
Chinstrap Penguin In Ice Cavern, 2006
Falkland Island Dependencies, South Sandwich Islands, Saunders Island
Singapore, Singapore Prov, Fishing Cat At Singapore Night Zoo
Slovenia, Sentjur Prov, Chimney
Slovenia, Old Woman And Fire, 2006 - Lee McLaughlin wrote a children's book on Einstein where there were giant marshmellows of the type in this photograph. I was reminded of this when I saw the old woman tending to the fire. It looked like a giant marshmellow roast, either that, or she was a leprechaun. This was taken by the side of the road in Slovenia.
Slovenia, Puconci Prov, Tower