One of the largest free-standing glaciers is Jokulsarlon, in southern Iceland. Huge ice sheets moved through here in 1251 and carved out the landscape .... seemingly endless fields of ice and snow, with black rocks jutting up from underneath, and b…
LIVINGSTONE TOWN, ZAMBIA — Outside of Victoria Falls national park in Zambia, Africa, Lion Encounter is a reserve for captive-bred lions and a program to introduce their offspring into the wild to care for the declining wild lion populations. Here,…
I was this close??!!! I do not use telephoto lenses. I just found this photo of a PRETTY LONG snake I encountered in the Peruvian Amazon while working with Earthwatch performing wildlife surveys in Lago Preto. He surprised me as I walked by; I stop…
My 17-year-old wandering self would look at this map of where I've been ... so far ... on this journey in a year and think, "Eleven! I better get moving!" I've spend a year listening and observing more than talking and deciding,…
This year I became friends with a guy who, with his bare hands, successfully fought off a jaguar that jumped on his back while he was tending to goats on the African plain. I am doing something right.…
Uzupis. Started by artists and rebels right after the Iron Curtain came down. It has thrived in the Lithuanian capitol since 1990. Even the little back pathways are filled with art. Artists get a break on studio space in the incubator ... and it…
I landed in Peru on a hot, sticky night nearly 9 years ago and launched The Friends Project and this idea that we can make a difference, with little resources but good ideas. Here's my first post. I can still feel the sweat dripping down my neck…
I'm going to Lithuania because I had to look up where the capitol is on a map and I know no one who has been there. So I will go find out myself. I'm also going to drive a tank. Uzupis is an area of the city comprised of mostly artists a…
I finally saw “Into the Wild.” Do you know this story? It is a true one. A college graduate who wished to seek truth and simplicity gave up his possessions, gave his money to charity, drove his junker car out into the desert and abandoned it and th…
