the streets of Philadelphia
I found myself in new territory recently, a new city with an old friend. Traveling solo has put me at...
Travel
Giant lillypads, double rainbows & and other ponderous musings…
Have you caught the glint of a winter's sun dancing on foreign waters, and felt old spirits in your soul?...
A canoe…
Beyond the shimmering sun along the water, I make out faint images gliding toward us. Local Amazonian people in dugout...
Monkeys
Howler. Red tail. Michael Jackson. ( the local name for the black & white colored ones) Fluffy. The names seemed...
the Green Waters of Mother Earth
The hairs on my arms stood at full attention as the skiff came toward us. Electricity was in the atmosphere,...
The Aristocrats
It all started with an e-mail, an invitation to check out a new music blog,Poking Smot.A clever name, so I...
stick fishing
Some of my earliest, happiest memories involve fishing. Sitting with my Mom and Pop along a lake shore as a...
Snakes
"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?" -Indiana Jones I knew when I planned my Amazonian adventure that the likelihood of...
An afternoon among river dolphins, an evening of caimans…
As I was marveling in my surroundings, droplets of water spray dancing lightly on my cheeks from the skiff,...
feeling like Conrad, exploring like Magellan
After a night of delicious Peruvian food and wine, I slept soundly to the sounds of the water lapping against...
The Aqua
“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”― Ernest Hemingway, The Old...
Staying alive in Miraflores
I travel with cautious optimism and a belief in the goodness of people, and for the most part, this has...