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
UK, Somerset Prov, Grass
Bangladesh, Sherpur Prov, Old Man
Latvia, Riga City Prov, Bottle Of Love - This is not an ordinary bottle of juice. I was with an extraordinarily beautiful woman, Claudina. You will meet her later. She was in love with me, to my amazement. Ten years earlier, I saw her for a moment. She was with her boyfriend. I asked her girlfriend if I could get her number. I wrote to her and called her but never reached her. Ten years later, I got an email from her. We traveled together. In a cafe in Riga, she explained to me why she loved an ordinary guy like me. She said it was not what was on the exterior, but what was on the inside, like that bottle in the photo, she said. The juice was delicious. I finally understood. Sort of.
Lithuania, Vilnius Prov, Window Conversation -
Slovenia, Polzela Prov, Strange Structure
Turkey, Bitlis Prov, Grasshopper
Slovenia, Trnovska Vas Province, Barn Side, 2006 - What a beautiful barn! A fine combination of modern and old, art and practicality.
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.
Thailand, Ranong Prov, Boat
Slovenia, Beltinci Province, Wall With Ivy, 2006 -