Sex with a doll – Daegu, Korea
1 Mar
She looked like a real doll … Cute, Asian face. Perfect black hair. Long eyelashes. Eternal smile that said – Welcome Mister! (more…)
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In search of diamonds – Kono, Sierra Leone
8 Oct
I went in search of diamonds, riches, wealth, freedom from this mundane dumb-motherfucker world – and found it. (more…)
On the rough road – Guinea
17 Sep
Often you know when a journey will be difficult, when it with wear you out, when it will numb your bum and tire your mind but hell it will be memorable and etched in your head and so this was one – one, of 100s – that I’ll remember (assuming that a mind-rotting disease doesn’t kick in) but hell for now it’s here. But how did it begin …? I forget.
Travels in Yemen #1
10 Sep
Here I am in Yemen awaiting the verdict by trial under strict Islamic Shira Law. Am facing serious charges of fornication, sodomy and using banned substances. The outcome will be either: 1) Deportation 2) Flogged a dozen times 3) Stoned to death ??? (So pick the right answer and I’ll post you an Arabic-language Koran, FREE; cos I’ve bought a stack in my rush to repent).
Drugged, abducted, robbed in Russia
6 Jun
Everyone around the tables was friendly. I remember having 3 shots with them and that’s it … until I remember stumbling and falling from weakness on gravel somewhere in the countryside amid early morning sunlight. Didn’t know where the fuck I was but it certainly wasn’t in the city. It dawned on me that I had been drugged, robbed, abducted and ditched on a road in the countryside.
A cold beer never felt so freeing – Colombia
9 Sep
A cold beer never felt so freeing; only two hours ago I was busted for grass and sweating it in a Colombian police station … (more…)
Latest News – 2010
Hi ... Am presently in Panama ... soon, a visit to family in New Zealand ... and then a return to Asia ???
crazy travels
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Travels in Yemen #1
But there are tribal rules – according to locals – no shooting women, children or old people; only in self defense if a weapon is raised against you or if there are two enemies present …
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Drugged, abducted, robbed in Russia
Everyone around the tables was friendly. I remember having 3 shots with them and that’s it … until I remember stumbling and falling from weakness on gravel somewhere in the countryside
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A cold beer never felt so freeing – Colombia
A cold beer never felt so freeing; only two hours ago I was busted for grass and sweating it in a Colombian police station …
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Head off the edge – Buenos Aires #2, Argentina
What jumping out of a plane didn’t achieve for me, jumping out of a moving car in Buenos Aires has … checked back into reality: maybe I’ll stay a while.
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Insane first day – Saddam’s Iraq #1
I forget about the million stares on me as he glares down and barks “You have no right to be here! No photos allowed! Why are you here … ?”
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Faces of West Africa
Photo portrait collection from across West Africa: faces of Togo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Ghana …
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Timbuktu, Mali
Once a fabled city of great gold wealth and Islamic scholarship, today Timbuktu is a quiet, dusty outpost …
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Angkor ‘94 – lost temples of Cambodia : ART
Angkor, Cambodia, mid-1994: It was a crazy and dangerous time with the Khmer Rouge guerrillas still active …
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Beautiful mongolian music – Mongolia
Beautiful, traditional, throat-singing Mongolian music – live in a traditional tent in central Mongolia.
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Prison visit – La Paz, Bolivia
My solitary Sunday was absorbed by a visit to La Paz’s San Pedro Prison. No, I wasn’t arrested for drugs or acts of public indecency, rather it was a straight forward tourist kinda thing …
Amazing Places
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Djenne – Mali
Surreal mud mosque of ancient Djenne and its Monday market ..
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Sanaa – Yemen
In the truest of all Arabian Nights visions is the beautiful, historical, magical city of old Sanaá …
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Brown Bluff – Antarctica
Massive penguin colony at Brown Bluff on the Antarctic Peninsula
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Atacama Desert – Chile
Images from the driest desert in the world …
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Christmas in Lalibela, Ethiopia
They remain one the least recognized man-made wonders of the world, yet once the Medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela were known as “The Jerusalem of Ethiopia”.
Global Journeys
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Piggy goes to market – Laos
Traveling across rural southern Laos, we stop to upload a pig into the bus. Watch the video …
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Niger River – Mali
3 days down the Niger River, thru the Sahara, from Mopti to Timbuktu, by pirogue. Camping on the desert shores, passing mud-sculptured villages and their elaborate mosques
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Via the market – Freetown, Sierra Leone
Leaving Freetown by bus, getting struck in morning traffic and the bustle of a busy market that flows across the streets. Watch the video …
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On the rough road – Guinea
Crossing Borders and traveling in Guinea, I encounter difficult journeys, wrecked transport, drunk soldiers, appalling roads, and very friendly ladies …
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Trek to the last inca city – Vilcabamba, Peru
I set out with a local guide and a laden mule and a mule-lad to trek to Vilcabamba, the last and lost Inca city, located in a distant, hidden valley, a full three days of walking remote trails …
