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 Expedition • World Parks Project • Walk Across South America
Cambodia, Krong Preah Sihanouk Prov, Ice Maker
Slovenia, Lasko Prov, Arched Bridge
Latvia, Daugavpils Prov, Pulpit, IMG_
Argentina, Aconcagua, 1993 - This is a view up the rocky crags on Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas. The route starts in the Horcones Valley. After a 25 mile walk, the climb up the mountain begins.
Warming Island Composite, 2006
Greenland, Uunartoq Qeqertaq
World’s First Reconnaisance of Warming Island 2006
The composite image above was created from two photographs I took from the helicopter on September 12, 2006. This full view of Warming Island tells the story: the ice bridge on the left that joined Warming Island with Greenland for all known history melted, revealing that Warming Island was not part of Greenland. The tabular iceberg shown on the left appears to have been part of the break-away. Whilst esoteric discussion between politicians steers public opinion about whether or not Global Warming exists, those individuals that live in or travel to the Arctic or Antarctic have a very clear view of what is happening. The world is melting. It is my view that it is not necessary to argue the point as to whether this melting is caused by human activity. The best course of action is for mankind to behave as if it is. Striving for a clean environment will have a positive effect on our quality of life.
UK, Ceredigion Prov, Landscape
Taiwan, Ilan County Prov, Dog
Myanmar, Kachin Prov, Street Scene
Slovenia, Nazarje Prov, Cat
Singapore, Flamingo, Jurong Bird Park, 2008, IMG_9462 - The Jurong Bird Park of Singapore is said to be one of the finest in the world. A flamingo's neck forms a figure eight.