"Last week, a guest was kidnapped," said the guy at hotel reception... Impressions of traveling around Lebanon in January 2024 during the Gaza War.
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A Global Nomad - Traveling for Fun, Knowledge & Freedom, since 1988.
The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is an ancient forest dedicated to Osun, the Yoruba goddess of fertility.
The driver sucked his cigarette, eyes wide, head darting around, hoping that we wouldn't be stopped... Traveling conflicted Nagorno-Karabakh in 2011.
Traveling Niger to the old trading town of Zinder on the southern edge of the Sahara / Sahel as I turn 25.
Exploring the ancient megaliths of Bada Valley at Lore Lindu, whose origins remain a mystery. Yet, their styling is similar to ancient relics in Laos and Colombia.
Rostov Veliky is a fairytale beauty of domed churches and castle towers near a lake about 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Vietnam in 1994 having an entire beach (Sa Huynh) to ourselves to drink beer all day and watch the waves...
Back in June 1994, the temples of Angkor were deserted and quiet as the Cambodian civil war continued...
It stole the lives of about 8 million indigenous Indian and African slaves at "The Mountain That Eats Men" in the Spanish colonial town of Potosi in modern Bolivia.
They often wore no clothes - staying naked, but smothered in seal oil to survive in the cold southern tip of South America.
Don't follow your David Attenborough urges on Komodo Island... or else. Also, travel advice to Komodo Island in 2023.
Journeying 38 hours by ferry thru "The Land of Fire" to "the world's southern-most city" of Puerto Williams.
Imagining the world from a window in China, amid the Pandemic Blues of late 2022. Ai art by MRP & Midjourney.
Memories of backpacking around Syria, talking my way into Syria by getting a visa on the border, exploring ancient sights while hitchhiking the desert, and visiting a restricted military zone on the Israeli border, and more.
Journeys of life: Adventures into the world of surreal Ai art - inspired by my global travels.
Making a prayer at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. Careful what you wish for...
Surreal account of Cambodia in 1994, visiting the killing fields and S-21 prison when the Khmer Rouge insurgency was raging and Pol Pot was still alive.
The bleak, high-altitude deserts of Tibetan Sichuan get surreal around Haizishan with a landscape of boulders and small lakes against distant mountains.
New social comment graphic art for 2022.
Sometimes we just find plain-weird places to camp - such is the flow of van life in China.
Watching the crazy antics of whales, sea elephants and penguins in Patagonia at Valdes Peninsula, Argentina.
On an isolated road in southern Armenia - close to the Iranian border, I attempted to hitchhike from Meghri to Kapan.
Across a blistering Saharan summer, I traveled across the Adrar Plateau of northern Mauritania.
In the mountains of Vietnam, I stay with a Hmong family living an ancient lifestyle (barely touched by the modern world in 1994), which included the accepted use of opium.
Taking the Korea DMZ tour in Panmunjom on the tensest border in the world, facing North Korea.
Djenne is famous for its surreal mud mosque that dominates this ancient trading town, once an important stop on the Trans-Saharan route and today's Monday Market is also a must-see.
While the world saw it on TV, I was there in Cox's Bazar amid a deadly cyclone that devastated coastal Bangladesh in 1991, killing 138,000 people.
Traveling Syria in 1989, encountering classic Islamic hospitality on a bungled hiking trip to the desert ruins of Halabiye on the Euphrates River.
The 'Final Cut' of the Valli car advertisement filmed in the Litang region of Tibetan Sichuan by a Shanghai film agency.
A letter home from my time in Ainaro in the mountains of East Timor, living with a local family and working for the United Nations in 2000.
Whirlwind love craziness amid the ancient Sun + Moon Pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico.
Amid the northern mountains of Ethiopia the historic capital of castles at Gondar was once known as the "African Camelot".
On the edge of the Sahara in Algeria, five ancient fortified villages in the M'zab Valley preserve a unique Islamic culture lasting more than 1000 years.
Encountering a traffic accident in Laos gets me thinking about death and near accidents in West Africa.
An offer of a new car for 3 months to do a paid road trip - to Tibet - happens, and then it involves a film crew! What next?
Our van life across China leads us to be invited to an all-expenses-paid trip to the Valli car launch event in the mountains of Morganshan.
Road-tested travel gear list with reasons why+ what to take on a 4 season backpacking trip traveling Africa, Asia, Latin America; based on my 30 years of backpacking.
Traveling across Eritrea in 1995 it seemed like a land of peace and hope. People were enthusiastic about the new beginning after their war of liberation.
Traveling the capital of Ashgabat, with all the security and surreal architecture, I understand why Turkmenistan is dubbed - “The North Korea of Central Asia”
Road-tested money safety travel tips for carrying cash + credit cards, using ATMs, the blackmarket, and feeling safer while traveling Africa, Asia, Latin America.
Kang village climbs the mountain in a stack of earth walls, balconies and roofs and this settlement, in northeast Iran, has been inhabited for over 3000 years.
Travel advice + inspiration for horse trekking in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan to the high altitude Ala Kul Lake.
Fake police travel scam in Nairobi, Kenya. But were they fake police or corrupt cops? Read this crazy story and decide for yourself.
Visiting the Mother Russia statue at Stalingrad war memorial, site of one of the longest and most brutal battles in modern history, which saw Nazi Germany defeated.
Van camping amid the peace and tranquility of the Pu-erh tea plantations in Xishuangbanna in China's southern Yunnan province.
Hiking in northern Laos to stay in an Akha Hill-Tribe village near the Chinese border.
Dominating the plain of Saqqara is King Djoser's step pyramid. It's a place you can ponder the ancient past in silence and get away from excessive tourism.
Exploring the desert mountains of Gansu and meeting Yugur nomads while van camping a few days at a waterhole used by their flocks of sheep. In this wilderness, I celebrated my 54th birthday.
Black & White photography featuring people in their environment. Going for a retro printed paper look, evoking texture, fades, softened images.
An overnight stay at a high mountain pass on the Tibetan Plateau reveals a stark, monochromatic landscape the next morning.