Pilot whales, walruses, an arctic fox, polar bears, harbor seals, grey seals. Assorted sea turtles. A for-real Portuguese man-o-war; very creepy. Flying fish, lots of barracuda (yawn), parrotfish, yellowtail tuna, and all sorts of colorful species indigenous to the waters of Southeast Asia and the Florida Keys. [...]
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Marine and Arctic wildlife I’ve seen in habitat…
Posted in Adventuring on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Things seen in Cambodia
Posted in Adventuring on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A minor diving incident I was a part of. Arrogant (young) Frenchmen. A gentlemanly Frenchman. A cute Welsh girl. Women offering themselves for 5 dollars. Drug sellers. A wok big enough to put a small cow in. Monkeys drinking out [...]
Angkor Wat
Posted in Adventuring on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Also not my video, and also where my feet have trod.
Ephesus, Turkey
Posted in Adventuring on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t my video, but I was here.
Nepal
Posted in Adventuring on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For some good and very explainable reasons, I didn’t do my Peru trip this Spring (hopefully, next year; though hopefully, also with some good company….).
However this year I will be going to Nepal. I wish to do a two day rafting trip, visit some Silk Road historical sites as part of an planned [...]
A report from Turkey..
Posted in Adventuring on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Turkish adventure…
I think I had spent twelve days there, eight in the company of my guide, without whom I could not have seen half of what I saw had I been traveling on my own. This had been my first overseas foray in awhile and was the start of my investigations into Turkish [...]
Places I’ve been too..
Posted in Adventuring on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Countries & places I’ve been too..
…Through the St. Lawrence Seaway, by ship …(three times) … Iceland (a few times)… Greenland … The Polar Ice Pack (really) …. Denmark. The Czech Republic (while part of Czechoslovakia)… Serbia (while part of Yugoslavia) Austria. …. [...]
From a Cambodian Adventure
Posted in Adventuring on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, in the fall of 2006 I spent 10 days in Cambodia; a trip that was about a year and a half in off-and-on planning. I spent two days SCUBA diving around Koh Tas and Koh Krang Salem while at Sihonoukville, saw one of the “Killing Fields” sites and the infamous S-21 prison, chatted with [...]
