Exploring is about bringing our own lives into perspective...
Bedouin at Petra, Jordan
Welcome to my travel blog!
My attraction to travel has stemmed from my geeky, sometimes obsessive compulsive fascination with foreign landscapes, cultures, and cityscapes. On top of that I was obsessed with geology from an early age, so much so that I decided to make a career out of it. Additionally, I am an avid mountain climber and have found mountaineering an especially useful media for bonding with local cultures.
I have also loved sharing my adventures through slide shows, teaching part-time at community colleges, and now through my travel blog.
Some of the my most memorable adventures include:
-Standing on top of an 8,000 meter peak
-Working in Mexico and Argentina, and some of the culture clash moments that I experienced there.
-Traveling with the Peace Corps (including traveling the Peace Corps way) in Haiti and Moldova
-Traveling in Syria with a Syrian-born American and insights on the current civil war
-Climbing Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya in East Africa
-Touring Sri Lanka after the tsunami and hearing their survival stories
My attraction to travel has stemmed from my geeky, sometimes obsessive compulsive fascination with foreign landscapes, cultures, and cityscapes. On top of that I was obsessed with geology from an early age, so much so that I decided to make a career out of it. Additionally, I am an avid mountain climber and have found mountaineering an especially useful media for bonding with local cultures.
I have also loved sharing my adventures through slide shows, teaching part-time at community colleges, and now through my travel blog.
Some of the my most memorable adventures include:
-Standing on top of an 8,000 meter peak
-Working in Mexico and Argentina, and some of the culture clash moments that I experienced there.
-Traveling with the Peace Corps (including traveling the Peace Corps way) in Haiti and Moldova
-Traveling in Syria with a Syrian-born American and insights on the current civil war
-Climbing Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya in East Africa
-Touring Sri Lanka after the tsunami and hearing their survival stories
GEOLOGIC JOURNEYS: Trips where I experienced the most intriguing geology.
JOURNEYS. My most memorable journeys around the world.