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Travel Articles and Excerpts
In addition to photography, I have written a number of travel articles. In this section you will find various selections from those articles.
'The Dead Dog Inn' - A Taste of Travel in India
At three in the morning, Jodhpur, like most Indian cities has a creepy, almost medieval quality to it. Along unlit streets lined with squalid rows of shacks, fires burn with small groups of people huddling together trying to stay warm. Nearby, cows mill about, while shadowy, destitute figures...
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On the Road to Mandalay
IN HIS POEM, "Mandalay," Rudyard Kipling alludes
to the joy of travel in colonial Burma. Though the
roads today are rather worse for wear, traveling in
Burma - present-day Myanmar - can still be a joyful
experience. It just takes the right attitude.
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Solo Across Australia
It was mid-November, nearly two weeks since I had started pedaling
east from the shores of the Indian Ocean on a solo bicycle trip across Australia...
The closer I got to Caiguna, the closer I came to the unfortunate conclusion that it may not have been such a great idea to take this trip. [more] Into the Heart of Bangladesh
As a hired Bengali driver and I looked on in expressionless
wonderment at the ruckus raised over a collision between a water
buffalo and a blue pickup truck, I noticed a faint metallic pinging in
the distance.
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The Temple of Karni Mata
With the occasional rat scurrying across my feet, I watched as
temple priests laid out bowls of grain, sugar and milk for the rats to eat.
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Roof of the World
What was left was a treacherous path that in places took travelers
under cascading waterfalls and through shifting, leech infested mud.
A few days before two people had been killed after losing their footing along the way.
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The Trans-Siberian Express
Although broken by hundreds of rivers, occasional cities and small ramshackle
hamlets along the rail line, Siberia gives you the distinct feeling that to somehow
tumble off the train would simply be a drier version of falling off a ship in the
middle of the ocean.
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An American In Vietnam
Once, while riding on a cyclo through the streets of Hue, I had the
driver stop so I could trade seats with him. You would have thought
he was the grand marshal of a parade as he sat in the passenger seat
and waved to people along the road.
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Adrenaline High
Peering over the edge of a short wooden gangplank leading off a high suspension bridge,
I mustered as much spit from my cotton dry mouth as I could and watched it drift slowly down
past the sheer walls of the gaping canyon I was preparing to hurl myself into.
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To Climb the Matterhorn
At 14,691 feet, it is only half as high as Everest, and it doesn’t even begin to approach the same league of difficulty as K2. Yet, the Matterhorn attracts climbers with its powerful character and notoriety, silently daring them as it towers majestically into the ether of the Swiss Alps.
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