I wish the quote on the Home page were mine, but it isn’t. It belongs to Wendy MacTavish, from her book, Expat. She appreciates exploring the world in the same way I do, and I got goosebumps as I read that short paragraph in her Hong Kong book because I finally found a travel soul-mate, if only through the printed word.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy these photos, which represent all but three of my vacations since the summer of 2003, when I exchanged my film camera for a digital model and stopped preparing hard-copy trip summaries in favor of a building and maintaining a website. (On those three missing trips—to Cayman Brac, Bermuda, and Beijing—I didn't take any pictures or didn't like those I did take.)
To navigate through this site click the link of your choice on the left of any page; click on any image to enlarge it.
ON TRAVELING ALONE
People ask me how I can travel by myself. It’s abnormal, to be sure, and for others I accept that. But for me vacationing alone is natural.
I’ve been taking solo vacations since 1985. Those who don’t understand why a person goes off by himself probably never will make sense of it, but here’s a quote that might help—from the screenplay for the film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, written by Philip Dunne and based on the novel by R.A. Dick.
Lucy Muir, to her daughter, Anna...
It’s hard to explain—solitude isn’t a matter of company. It’s a matter of spirit. You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself—even if it’s people you love.
But I can’t deny I do meet a lot of people when I travel, in part because I am alone. Witness that little angel I met in Ho Chi Minh City in January 2007, shown in the photograph on the right above.
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Anyway, I hope you enjoy these photos, which represent all but three of my vacations since the summer of 2003, when I exchanged my film camera for a digital model and stopped preparing hard-copy trip summaries in favor of a building and maintaining a website. (On those three missing trips—to Cayman Brac, Bermuda, and Beijing—I didn't take any pictures or didn't like those I did take.)
To navigate through this site click the link of your choice on the left of any page; click on any image to enlarge it.
ON TRAVELING ALONE
People ask me how I can travel by myself. It’s abnormal, to be sure, and for others I accept that. But for me vacationing alone is natural.
I’ve been taking solo vacations since 1985. Those who don’t understand why a person goes off by himself probably never will make sense of it, but here’s a quote that might help—from the screenplay for the film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, written by Philip Dunne and based on the novel by R.A. Dick.
Lucy Muir, to her daughter, Anna...
It’s hard to explain—solitude isn’t a matter of company. It’s a matter of spirit. You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself—even if it’s people you love.
But I can’t deny I do meet a lot of people when I travel, in part because I am alone. Witness that little angel I met in Ho Chi Minh City in January 2007, shown in the photograph on the right above.
RAF