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 2300 of the world’s 3978 provinces, to every country on earth and to 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.
Ghana, Jeff Shea With Tomato Merchants, 1987 - I found the people in Ghana to be very friendly. This photograph was taken in my first week in West Africa.
Thailand, Maha Sarakham Prov, Sugar Cane Stand
This place is also known as the City of Screams. The plaque reads "The citadel on this hill site was the heart of the Islamic city of Bamyan following the decline of Buddhism here from the 8th century AD. Share-e-Gholghola is believed to have been destroyed by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, who invaded in 1221 and massacred all the inhabitants. The site's name is said to date from this massacre." I went there in the late afternoon in February in the bitter cold.
Congo Zaire, Goma, Zairoise, 1987 - I went into a bar in the sleepy town of Goma, long before the ethnic cleansing took place over a decade later. The Africans had a natural affinity for dancing. I was invited to join in, but, shy, I remained seated. I expressed interest in this young woman. Her hair is in the style popular at the time. I theorized that the spiky hair-do of the Zairoise, or women of Zaire, was not just a fad, but a tradition for centuries. I still do not know if was right. _Prov,_Two_Young_Women_At_Bus_Stop,_2009,_IMG_3383.jpg)
UK, Barking And Dagerham (London) Prov, Two Young Women At Bus Stop
Turkey, Konya Prov, Pide Dinner
Ireland, Wicklow Prov, Ave Maria
Cambodia, Krong Kaeb Prov, Bringing Home Bamboo
Slovenia, Velika Polana Prov, Pots And Corn
PNG, Unamo, 1983 - On the way to Unamo, Kely and I were abandoned by our guides, partly because she was slow and it was getting dark, maybe because we had not adequately shared our provisions with them, but also because they had broken an unspoken code of ethics. They had our food pack with them. After backtracking to Wabia through remote rain forest, we rested and got new guides. A day later, we arrived at Unamo. Our food packs had been left in the abandoned houses shown in this photograph. That was all there was to Unamo.