"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
West of Eden by Harry Harrison. What might have been if the dinosaur extinction event never happened.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.
From time to time, I have been fortunate to travel to different parts of the world; sometimes because of my job, and sometimes for recreation. Over the past 20 years, I have been able to explore parts of western Ireland and Dublin, skimmed through parts of England and Scotland, and too-briefly visited Uganda; Kyiv, Ukraine; Guatemala; and Haiti.
Here I'll share thoughts and photos of my travels. These notes are reconstructed from journals written during my travels—in some cases, 20-plus years after the fact.
To navigate, simply click on one of the flags in the upper left of these pages. A word of caution for those with low bandwidth connections. Some of these pages are pretty heavy on pictures, and could take a while to load.
