Wednesday July 27th - While enjoying a Safari at Africa’s Ngorongoro today, we were viciously attacked by a swarm of flying insects that resembled a story of plagues from the Old Testament. With the roof raised on our Range Rover we were wearing out the shutters of...
[caption id="attachment_10812" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Photographing Ngorongoro with my friend and professional photographer Dan Johanson.[/caption] Our safari at Africa’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area proved to be an interesting day. The events that transpired were more than I could tell in one post so I will break it into...
Tuesday, July 26th Tanzania, Africa Exhilarated, yet exhausted from summiting Mt Kilimanjaro, our guide Wilfred Moshi treated us to an authentic African feast made by his mom. Our four hour road trip afterwards was interrupted only by a giraffe sighting beside the highway. Upon arrival to our...
Jamba! (hello), from Africa Seven days, 54 miles and countless prayers later, we completed our mission of summiting Mt Kilimanjaro, the tallest freestanding mountain in the world. The purpose was to increase awareness and raise funds for the Badjao Bridge ministry in the Philippines. We are...
I am so excited to depart for Africa in just four days. There are two legs to this trip, the first starts July 5th when I depart D/FW airport for Uganda with Charles Loper, found of The Master Cares Foundation. I will be in the...
Perched on a cliff overlooking Lake Como, our Airbnb in Verenna was like a dream. This storybook fishing village dates back to the 13th century and is like a time capsule from the past. The kindness of our Airbnb host Rosella contributed greatly to our memorable...
Checking off the last box on my Cambodia travel list entailed visiting Angkor Wat, often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world. Angkor Wat was built in the first half of the 12th century...
I find writing to be a most interesting process. I read recently that much of what we write we must have the courage to wad up and throw away, as it was simply a process to get to what we were really trying to say....
In Poipet, Cambodia Saturday February 20th, 2016 Abandoned by her parents at the age of three, six-year-old Srey has every human reason to feel unloved and rejected. The tumor that disfigured her face was seen by her parents as a curse and ultimately led to her abandonment....
When the Khmer Rouge regime swept through Cambodia in the 1970’s, nearly a quarter of its population was extinguished from torture, mass executions, malnutrition and disease. It’s estimated that between one and three million lives were lost. After flying into Cambodia last month to photograph and...
