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
PH, Abra Province, Jeepney Navigates Fallen Boulder, 2008, IMG_2080 - I hired this Jeepney to take me over the mountains between Vigan and Tabuk in the far northwest of Luzon, the northernmost of the Philippines big islands. Here the Jeepney driver navigates a treacherous rockfall.
Egypt, Lights on the Pyramid of Chefren, 1984 - On June 30, 1984, I slept on top of The Great Pyramid of Cheops. I had to find a way up without being seen by the guards. I climbed up the huge blocks of eroded stone after sunset. I made it to the top and tried to sleep but it was uncomfortable, because there were too many mosquitoes! I wrote the following in my diary, "I started climbing Cheops about 1:00 a.m. Because of guards near the corner, I had to climb up the center of the pyramid with my guitar on, pack and bag. Rocks crumbled in my hands and under my feet. I inched my way up for one and a half hours. There was no one on top but me. I played the guitar with my bottom naked, rocking on top of the Great Pyramid." (Although it is not recorded in my diary, it seems to me that when I was climbing the Sound and Light Show began and Chefren was illuminated. However, this recollection seems to conflict with my diary, since it seems unlikely they would have a show late at night. I distinctly remember being afraid they would see me climbing up the Great Pyramid.) This photograph of Chefren was taken from the top of Cheops. Many people do not realize that you can go inside the Pyramid of Cheops. At 1 p.m. on June 30, 1984, prior to climbing Cheops, I wrote the following in my diary, "I went to the pyramids with Jeshua. We went inside the Great Pyramid. I went up the corridor to the tomb deep in the heart of the pyramid, a square granite room four meters high, fourteen meters long and eight meters wide (?). Alone, I laid in the sarcophagus when all the tourists had gone. Soaking it up. We walked around the pyramids, the Sphinx. Had falafels and tamarindo in town. We gazed to the top to Chepren pyramid (which still has its cap on it) figuring out if it was feasible to climb it."
Vietnam, Vinh Phuc Prov, Station Flag
UK, Swansea Prov, Night Castle
Cambodia, Mondol Kiri Prov, Woman With Basket
Latvia, Ventspils City Prov, Soup -
Congo Zaire, Children, 1984 - This was taken on my first visit to the Congo, then known as Zaire. I was impressed by how happy the children seemed. I realized then that material wealth was not a guarantee of happiness; ironically, it seemed that children smiled and laughed more in poor places than in rich.
Slovenia, Ruse Prov, Landscape
Slovenia, Metlika Prov, Ants On Flower
Myanmar, Shan Prov, Silver Paluang Girl Bathing