My favorite intruder. Jumped into our tiny boat and helped himself to lunch. “Where river meets sea” in Thailand.
Big big boy. Anaconda. Amazon.
Spur of the moment haircut time for Jeff! Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Kayaking through sea caves in Phang Nga Bay Phuket Thailand. “The gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” -Anthony Bourdain
Sun bear with an itch. Borneo.
Learning all about “mouse poo” chile in Chiang Mai, Thailand. “You have to taste a culture to understand it.” – Deborah Cater
Pantanal, Brazil. “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West
Houseboat stay on the Piquiri River in Brazil, where they kept track of some of our sightings.
“All good things are wild and free.” ― Henry David Thoreau
On our private island (just for the day) in Fiji. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” – Isabelle Eberhardt
Turtles getting ready to hatch. Lankawi.
Capybara family in Pantanal. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”― Douglas Adams
Hello from Snowhotel Kirkenes, Norway.
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.” — Bilbo Baggins
He was just a little guy, hurt during a typhoon. Fortunately he found the care he needed and a great home. Though he can’t fly, he still grew up to be a fine, well adjusted bat. We bonded instantly.
“BULA!” – Everybody in Fiji
Borneo rainforest captured my heart and ruined my hair.
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” — John Muir
Met this beauty on one of the outer islands in Turks and Caicos.
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” – Isabelle Eberhardt
Jeff takes his coffee the Vietnamese way. Ca phe tru. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” – Earl Wilson
The Arctic Circle in winter did not feel as cold as Chicago. “I need a six month vacation, twice a year.” – Unknown
A sobering photo. Ask me about it. Cambodia.
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”― Unknown
Little digger on a beach by Kihei in Maui.
“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”― Roberto Assagioli
A perfect day, spent with school kids in Fiji. “Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” -Zhuangzi
Borneo. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart
Vietnam “What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.” – Joshua Foer
Laos. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.” ― Lao Tzu
Cambodia “Each day holds a surprise.” -Henri Nouwen
Havin’ a coffee in Hội An.
“A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.” – Lin Yutang
Sunset Jeff. Botswana.
‘Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” – John Keats
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao Tzu
Kuala Lumpur at 3 in the morning. Long story
Capsule hotel in Japan
Let’s call this “Monkeys I have known.”
“I still don’t know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.” – Hannah Kent
Amazon waterfall after a long, hot, humid hike.
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” – Loren Eiseley
This howler monkey in Belize decided to adopt me. After wrapping his tail around my arm and hanging out for 20 minutes, he said goodbye and dashed up a tree.
