The Gibbon Experience was one of the most surreal adventures of my life.  If you have already read the blog post, you know why.  If not, be sure to do so [...]

If you haven't read the first part of the story, check it out here before continuing! The Gibbon Experience - continued. The guide informed us that breakfast was to be [...]

Words like unbelievable, incredible and life changing mean about as much as a Quran In a Shabbat service when taking about the gibbon experience. It was that amazing. There was [...]

Life on Inle Lake is so foreign that it almost feels like another world.   The local cultural oddities and unique ways of providing opened my eyes and brought me far out [...]

The temples and cities of Myanmar are an incredible experience, but sometimes it's the complete lack of development that makes an adventure life changing. The rural farmland between Inle Lake and [...]

It's easy to see how different we all are.  In an individualistic culture like my own, each person is urged to define their own self as separate from others.  We take [...]

Any time I set out for a backpacking adventure in a third world country, I know things are bound to go wrong at one point or another. After all, these [...]

Taking someone's photograph is personal.  Unfortunately, many photographers these days have a 'get it and get out' mentality that creates hostility among locals and tourists. We have all seen the [...]

Every face in a photograph tells a story.  Deep lines from a hard life's work in the rice fields, smooth bright cheeks from a joyful youth, lost distant eyes from [...]