It was one of those moments that just made me want to punch the human race. I was watching a Q & A with Dereck and Beverly Joubert, world-renowned wildlife filmmakers and National Geographic artists in residence, and the topic was rhino poaching. The sobering reality I knew […]
I love solo travel but that doesn’t always mean that I am necessarily alone. The more interested I become in photography, the more I enjoy taking small photo tours/workshops to explore my wish list destinations. The benefits are threefold: 1. I discover a new place. 2. I improve […]
I remember musing that a wedding planner would think I’d lost my mind. Wrestling? You want wrestling at your wedding?! Her shock giving way to complete bewilderment and horror when I followed up with…..and by the way, we’ll want a horse race too. I scanned the Kazakh celebration […]
We sat on the ground around a low wooden table waiting for the day to begin. It was overcast, threatening rain and the ger was dim, throwing everything into monochrome. A pot of boiling milk sat on top of a battered wood-burning stove in the center of the […]
In March 2015, I walked into the small chic bar in the Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp, located deep in the desert of the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, a place so remote you have to fly in to reach it. Sitting on a stool was a man looking rather […]
It’s been a week since I returned from my trip to western Mongolia with photographer Timothy Allen and seven fellow photography lovers, and my head is still spinning from the adventure. We camped in the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, a vast and profoundly beautiful and pristine expanse […]
Today I leave for Mongolia. I’ve had this trip on the calendar for nearly a year and it’s genuinely surreal to finally be packed and ready to go to the airport. This will be my most rugged adventure to date. I’ll be camping (and I don’t mean Glamping) […]
