• Burma, a fantastic discovery: a modest tribute to a pivotal encounter…

    2007 marked my first trip to Burma, a pivotal, extraordinary, and incredibly challenging journey. Despite knowing the rest of Southeast Asia well, I was captivated by this country, its vastness, its diversity, its people, its astonishing and captivating inhabitants. The difficulty of this trip, undertaken with my adventure companion Joan, did not prevent me from developing a deep passion for this country. I returned in 2019 and have…

  • Dangerous laughter

    In Vietnam, a rather puritanical country with “contained” tourism, laughing gas is on the menu during “happy hour”; while nitrous oxide is wreaking havoc among young consumers today! (2017)

  • Travel companion

    Roby and I have traveled extensively in Indonesia, including Java, Bali, Sumatra, and the extraordinary Sulawesi. In this photo taken in Laos, he’s checking the photos he took that day. (2016)

  • Tribute

    A tribute to Peter, the eccentric Cambridge professor who helped me develop a taste for “complicated” travel. Thanks to his guide, present here, I had the “pleasure” of spending my first night in a Burmese border post and jail! We were released the next day…(1997)