Walk/Raft Across South America
February 19, 2020 3:22 pm Comments Off on Walk/Raft Across South AmericaThe route of Jeff Shea’s walk and raft across South America: In 2020, I completed walking and rafting across the... View Article
The route of Jeff Shea’s walk and raft across South America: In 2020, I completed walking and rafting across the... View Article
In touring England, it was not unusual to see young people out on the streets “living it up.” What was... View Article
October 7, 2006Bush house between Roho and Kanikeh, Maluku Province, Indonesia What had previously been a road seven years before... View Article
May 12, 2006 Predosilje, Slovenia The day started off in Kranj and ended up in Dol, and then we headed... View Article
I went to Cuba with a group of five friends in the mid-1990s before it was technically legal for US... View Article
December 15, 2000Namibia, Kunene Province, Epupa A group of four non-Himba women bathed in the river. They yelled out to... View Article
Even though I had traveled for thirty years, I didn’t know the castle town of Carcassonne even existed till the... View Article
October 16, 2009Bristol Airport area in North Somerset, via Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and North Somerset counties Today was a sort... View Article
This was one of the epic expeditions of my life. After sailing from San Francisco to New Guinea in a... View Article
April 9, 1984On Train For Calcutta Leaving Sikkim… On my way down the hill now. I’m thinking about the future... View Article
February 13, 2007Makassar The body is the vessel of Nirvana. To harmonize all its energies with good intent makes the... View Article
December 12, 2000 – Of particular beauty were the zebras. They seemed like mythological creatures to me, reminding me of... View Article
March 16, 2006En route to Tristan Da Cunha, via Gough Island, South Atlantic Today was a fantastic day, if only... View Article
June 22, 1984Jerusalem, via Bethlehem, Dead Sea and Jericho Today was one of those fantastic days, though when I awoke... View Article
Despite all advancements, happiness is still elusive. The benefits brought about by Science as we know it sometimes do not... View Article
June 26 , 1979 Cuzco, Peru I’ve today found a new reverberation within me – getting over the failure of... View Article
After the Warming Island expedition in 2006, Dennis Schmitt led another expedition in 2007. The objective was to discover a... View Article
September 2, 1984Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, Tanzania Woke up late (at 10am) feeling drained by both yesterday’s excitement, last night’s craziness,... View Article
This scene represents one of the highlights of my life. The context of the expedition was that it was in... View Article
June 25, 1984 Slept in Cairo Arrived in Cairo. Pain and disappointment upon finding that Gabrielle had left last night... View Article
July 8, 1979 Lima, Peru Sunday – This morning, cruising along about 130 km from Nazca, we saw a huge... View Article
May 2, 1996 Threadbo, Australia A great day, a banner day, literally, placing the Seven Summits flag on Kosciusko. I... View Article
I included this photo for its reference to peace. In the Himalayas, there is a sense of spirituality. It is... View Article
Thursday March 11, 1993 San Francisco Veronica came over last night. She is beautiful… but she wears so much make-up... View Article
August 15, 1983 Selo, Java Walking en route to Mount Merapi, Java, Indonesia Went to bed at 7pm and slept... View Article
November 23, 2008 Phuket, from Krabi, through Phangnga Province Today was fantastic. We woke early and took the morning ferry... View Article
What I learned: There is never time to waste and it is never too late. June 1, 2008 A good,... View Article
Background: The entries below are compiled from two trips to Patriot Hills, Antarctica. The first was in 1997, en route... View Article
1999 Shea’s Eleven Precepts of Awesomeness Do not compromise your original nature. Compromise comes from giving into the pressures of... View Article
November 4th, 1982 0815 Lat: 30° 58.52’ Long: 128° 33.14’ Report from the Sugar Bear… Yesterday, Kelly tells me, Boysie commented... View Article
When I went deeply into Azerbaijan, the mountains were the biggest surprise. The idea to take photos in every province... View Article
September 1, 2007 Bali, Indonesia I went for a run. I heard gamelan. There was a Balinese dance show at... View Article
In 1999, in Ambon, Indonesia, a man named Polly Gasperz told me, in amazing detail, about an alleged encounter he’d... View Article
In Maluku, people believe that the Batik tribe in Seram can fly. December 30, 1998 Waisumaia, Ceram, Molukas Islands, Indonesia... View Article
August 14, 2011 Attapeu, Attapeu province, Laos Stopped by police. Despite their protests, I drove to the hotel to get... View Article
July 1, 2011 Aileu, Aileu Province, via Dili and Aileu Provinces, East Timor Once we got to Aileu province, I... View Article
Jeff Shea January 4, 2000 Theory 1 – Theory of Innate Momentum Discovery of innate momentums transcends material gain. §1... View Article
28 October 1983 Nepal This notebook is to be an exploratory work. I want to derive lists of what I... View Article
My family and I were in the north of Thailand. Just as we were about to make the long trip... View Article
November 15, 2009 Baku, Azerbaijan I woke in Azerbaijan. I ran down to the Black Sea then to the Maiden... View Article
November 19, 2008 Narathiwat, from Surat Thani Woke in Surat Thani early. Took the small road around the coast to... View Article
July 10, 2008 Les Cayes, Haiti I loved today, even though Nathalie and Yolette had gotten difficult on the drive.... View Article
January 14, 1984 New Delhi, India I’d just bought a guitar for 285 rupees with five nice picks and a... View Article
December 19, 2009 via Taroko Gorge On the way, I came to Taroko National Park. The coastal cliffs fell directly... View Article
December 18, 2009 Slept in Yilan, Yilan County, Taiwan, via Taipei City, Taipei County, Keelung City, and Yilan Counties Simon... View Article
October 19, 2009 Today was a rather fantastic day. The road to St. David’s was lovely. The sun and clouds... View Article
November 7, 2011 Tam Coc No sooner had we started out than it began to rain. Of course, rain presents... View Article
September 6, 2006 en route Warming Island Helicopter rides are exciting, although I find them disconcerting… We sped over east... View Article
This was one of the first stops on a voyage that originated in Ushuaia, the world’s most southerly city. After... View Article
…as published in the book Seven Summits – Mitchell Beazley 1998 After having sailed across the ocean and traveled many... View Article
June 10, 1990 Cameroon airport on arrival, Doula, Cameroon I just stepped off of the plane. Now, I’m sitting and... View Article
Indonesia is a magical place. Strong beliefs in the supernatural still exist, particularly in the outlying islands. If you are... View Article
In 2002, before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, I traveled to Iraq and then Afghanistan. What I learned... View Article
The Cape Verde Islands were the next to last destination on a voyage to the South Atlantic in 2006. Previous... View Article
In 2009, I attempted to see as many of Azerbaijan’s provinces (rayons) as possible. Azerbaijan and Armenia have a conflict.... View Article
My effort to photograph all 81 provinces in Turkey was completed in 2012. When in pursuit of that objective, I... View Article
In 1984, five years after the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Red Guards took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and while the... View Article
This is just a simple story about how silly political boundaries can be. What I Learned: Political boundaries are fiction,... View Article
This is just one of scores of figures in a large display in the Bangkok airport representing the well-known mythological... View Article
In 2005, a rare blood condition I had was diagnosed as possibly fatal, but which was eventually cured. During this... View Article
Background: After nine hours of climbing starting at midnight, my friend, Sherpa Lhakpa Gelu, reaches the summit. I took this... View Article
November 2, 1988 from Casablanca to Marrakesh to Asni, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco Morning – I am sitting in a... View Article
A Revelation – I Am the Universe (and So Are You) January 1, 1984Baidam, Nepal The first thing of the... View Article