I have finally started to work through some of the video from South America. I have a total of about eight hours of raw footage to sift through and decided to start with the wild life refuge stuff and work my way backwards once I put together the documentary for the refuge I worked […]

I’m sure most of you are aware of the recent tornado that ripped through downtown Atlanta. The following article is about my very close friends, and a three month old puppy, who survived the close brush with death. Here is a quick video clip of the interview, but the article is much more descript.

How residents […]

Yesterday I woke up and made my way to Haifa to visit a school there, Yemin Orde.  A family friend of mine had helped with the creation of some of the facilities and they arranged for me to have a VIP visit and tour.  A taxi was sent to pick me up at the train […]

I took a taxi to the border of Egypt and Israel from Dahab.  Upon arriving, I sent my bags through a big X-ray machine and I had to empty my pockets to go through the metal detector….which was comforting considering that every metal detector I went through in Egypt was accompanied by an Egyptian dude, […]

The above picture is the wreck that I returned to Dahab to explore.  After two days of waiting for the weather to calm down on the Red Sea, we met at 11pm and took a mini bus to Sharm (a nearby dive town that is much more touristy than Dahab).  We boarded the boat, had […]

In Cairo I spent two days doing nothing but uploading photos and watching TV. I know this sounds lame, but I was pretty tired from the past week of sight seeing and I didn’t think I could jump right back into exploring the crazy streets of Cairo. The second night, Will (Paul’s roomate) invited me to […]

Trailing by about a week now on the recount of my experience I have to re-post a quote from “Into Thin Air”, one that I had previously introduced when I was taking a long time to recount the story of “Trekking in the Andes”. 
¨I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a […]

After the train station, I had some drinks at Paul’s place with some of his friends who taught at the school with him, before packing and heading back to the station.
I know that I have met a lot of people who were very friendly and helpful during my travels in Egypt, but on my 15 […]

The day before I left for Aswan I spent about four hours at the train station.  One thing that is different about the Middle East (which is also found in Chile) is that people dont wait in lines. Sure, they have to wait if there is more than one person who wants to talk to […]

 Well….after eight days in the wonderland of Dahab I am back on the road.  As always, it was sad to leave the friends I made there and there is no way to make saying goodbye easy.  A common trend in my travels has been feeling like I have known people for much longer than I […]

I have not been writing much recently because I have been very busy. For the past 3 days I have been up at about eight, I meet a group of kids that Drew had introduced me to (Drew head back to Cairo to catch a flight back to istanbul), and we all go scuba diving, […]

We made it to Dahab and it only took us 12 hours from the time we showed up at the port to the time we left the port in Egypt.  The ferry, that was supposed to leave at 12am ended up leaving at 2:30 and arriving at 8.  Then there was the usual middle eastern […]

Yesterday, after I met up with Drew (the kid I met in Petra), we had someone approach us on the street about a trip to Wadi Rum.  To make a long story short ( for once) we worked out a deal so that we would get transport to Wadi Rum in a 4×4 vehicle, straight […]

The history of Petra is much to elaborate for me to go in to but it started with the Nabataeans.  Please check out the Wikipedia site, because they are better at explaining just about everything that I try and explain, although some of their material is questionable given that it is a non-profit encyclopedia. 
I woke up […]

Hamada (the Egyptian dude) and his roomates had asked me to come back last night to hang out, so when I left the internet cafe last night I went on a hunt for their apartment.  As you can see from the pictures, Amman isn’t exactly on the grid system.  After what must have been about […]

As I write this I am sitting in an internet cafe in Amman, Jordan.  The smoke filled room is fully equipped with mobile space heaters and until about five minutes ago I had Arabic music blaring in my face.  The owner had kindly given up his main computer because there were no computers open when […]

Here are some other photos that were taken by our group leaderand posted on the internet at this site
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The trip ended on Wednesday night. Thursday, me and two friends went to Haifa, which is North of Tel Aviv, and went out […]

Hello everyone. I apologize for the lack of communication but the days have been long and we have done a lot in the past few days. Every morning we set our alarms for 6 and have the eaten breakfast and loaded the bus by 7:30 and tour around until we go to dinner at our […]

About 24 hours ago I arrived at the Miami International airport to meet up with my Taglit group. The security screening process that we all went through for EL AL airlines was the most thorough I have ever experienced. I was asked who I stayed with in Florida, how do I know them, […]

I arrived in BA and made my way to the hotel I had booked for the last leg of my trip. The man who showed me to my room must have thought I resembled a caveman as the expression on my face while he showed me how to use the air conditioner probably looked like the excited […]