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You will never believe it...

You will never believe it…

Note to self…
Always, always, always take a camera with you when you walk out the door. It is a certainly that you will wish you had it at some point in the journey outside my apartment!!
Why do I have to learn this lesson over and over again? Today was the final straw…I had this “I [...]

Learning How to Remove Leaches

Learning How to Remove Leaches

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol 3
8/31/08
Snapshots from this day of the journey can be found here!
Photography from Nepalese Villages - click here!
Today I arrived at the village of Puma where I will be staying for 2 weeks. It’s pretty much what I thought it would be in my ‘prepare for the worst’ expectations. Yet I [...]

Traveling Circus – An Endangered Species

Traveling Circus – An Endangered Species

To view the “best of” South Dakota photography click here!
To view all snapshots of the circus - click here!
As a kid, I never saw a circus. I skipped right from playing circus games/acts with my older brother in our front yard (which landed me in the emergency room), straight to Vegas and seeing Cirque de [...]

Animal Encounters Of The Hoofed Kind

Animal Encounters Of The Hoofed Kind

Photo: Buffalo lounging in the prairie grass
To view the ‘best of’ South Dakota photography - click here!
Click here to see all of the snapshots of our animal encounters, Mt. Rushmore, and hiking.
The signs were everywhere. In Pierre, along the interstate, near Rapid City, in small towns…the silhouette of a buffalo and some scripted writing with [...]

Feline Visitation Rights

Feline Visitation Rights

Photo: Since I’m in the process of selling off all of my posessions, my friend Linda sent this photo to me as a joke!
I used to say that my cat, Palucci, had love for only one person; that person used to be me. However, when I decided to do my long term travel last year [...]

Road Trippin USA - Vol. 5

Road Trippin USA - Vol. 5

Lexington, KY to Franklin, TN Bluegrass Country
For all snapshots of the Horses and the day’s road trip sites - click here!
Today we spent time exploring Bluegrass country. The grass really isn’t blue – but it’s called bluegrass…go figure. I do have an explanation though – in the spring, bluegrass produces a bluish-purple bud that, when [...]

Budget Tokyo

Budget Tokyo

For the ‘best of’ Tokyo Photography - click here!
For Tsukiji Fish Market Photography - click here!
For all Tokyo snapshots - click here!
Since I only had 4 days in Tokyo, and little money left for traveling, I had a challenge – how do you stay in Tokyo on a budget. After months of living a simple [...]

Yak-i-ty Yak – Shangri-la

Yak-i-ty Yak – Shangri-la

For all photos of the Shangri-la area - click here!
Before coming to Southwest China, my sister and I were out one night with some of her Singapore friends and they wanted to know where we were going on our pending trip to Yunnan. We rattled off a few places including Shangri-la. There was an immediate [...]

Battle Of The Bugs - Voyage To The Great Wall

Battle Of The Bugs - Voyage To The Great Wall

Photo: The Great Wall of China - Mutianyu Section
For the ‘best of’ Northern China Photography - click here!
For all snapshots of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall - click here!
The Great Wall of China – yet another site that I never really expected to see in my life – but when you do – [...]

Swiss Roll

Swiss Roll

For the ‘best of’ Switzerland Photography - click here!
For All snapshots of Geneva - click here!
For all snapshots of Interlaken and Zorbing - click here!
There used to be a brand of treats called Little Debbie (in the Midwest). I would always beg my mom to buy us Little Debbie Swiss Rolls. They were basically the [...]