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
Greenland, Warming Island, off coast of Liverpool Land, Young Cross Fox, 2006 - Dennis Schmitt said that this cross fox's fur was dark because it was young. The fur turns white when it reaches adulthood.
USA, Wake Island, Beach
Cambodia, Phnom Penh Prov, Roasting Chickens
Bangladesh, Gazipur Prov, Street Tires
Bangladesh, Habiganj Prov, Country House
Seram, Trunk Loreng Tree, 2006 - The Loreng Tree has bark that looks like army camouflage, from whence it derives its name. It has a remarkable appearance. This photograph was taken on the path between Waiputihputih and Roho. It is abundant in the rain forest of this area of Seram.
Namibia, Himba Front And Back, 2000 - The young Himba women in this photograph are wearing nearly identical costumes and have nearly identical hair. Himba women were both beautiful and gentle. The only other people I ever met in all my travels who inspired me in the same way were the Melanesians. This was remarkable to me in that both groups were among the most 'primitive' people left on Earth. It was through encounters with such people that I was imbued with the sense that as we travel away from our primeval beginnings to a more modern state of being, we are losing the precious gift of innocence and some other indefinable, intangible human quality that comes from living close to the Earth. It seemed ironic to me that in the most primitive people I found the most advanced behaviors: gentility, generosity, sincerity and artlessness.
Azerbaijan, Qax Prov, Road
Cambodia, Pousaat Prov, Village House
Slovenia, Velike Lasce Prov, Bee On Flower