I love to wander the world in my spare time, in search of adventure. I believe that making memories is far more rewarding than collecting things. If I am to collect “things” it will be the photos that record those memories. Some of my favorite travel memories are:
- Roaming around Ireland and Scotland by myself, staying in some really cool hostels
- Road trips with my children
- Standing at the edge of Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland tasting the salty brine of the ocean spray as the stormy winds lashed out at me
- Wandering the back roads of Puerto Rico for a month while on deployment to FEMA, lodging with strangers and making new friends
- Being stranded in the Everglades in a raft with my sons, daughter-in-law and 3 grandchildren
- Flying a small 2-seater airplane (and surviving!)
- Realizing how deep and wide the Grand Canyon really is
- Meandering across Ecuador, Peru, and Costa Rica on a 24-day solo adventure
- Eating ants in the Ecuadorean rainforest
- Spending 2-1/2 months in New Orleans doing disaster relief after Hurricane Katrina, crying with people as they mourned their dead
- Swimming at the bottom of a South American waterfall
- Cooking andeating a guinea pig on an overnight cultural tour outside of Cuenca, Ecuador
- Singing around a campfire at the base of the then (and now) active Tungurahua Volcano just a few days before one of its 2008 eruptions
- Eating termites in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
- Camping and backpacking with my grandchildren
- Almost getting arrested going into Canada in 1995 (BTW, I don’t recommend this)
- Delivering a baby while on my second medical mission trip to Uganda in 2009
- Surviving my weeklong backpacking trip on the Maroon Bells 4-Pass Loop in Colorado in 2012
- Experiencing an African safari
- And backpacking 700 miles on the Appalachian Trail…a good part of it solo.
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