Some Photos
Some Photos
This
is the dying World Trade Center as seen from
my neighborhood, 9:30 a.m., September 11, 2001. (Dispatch
#34)
This
is "The Pile" we now live with. 
And
these people are staring at it. (Dispatch
#34)
Second
helpings of Sydney, atop the Harbour Bridge at
sunset. (Dispatch #33)
Stupid!
Stupid! I can't believe I
jumped out of a plane! (Dispatch
#28)
I'm
in an ice cave during a six-hour glacier
hike in New Zealand. (Dispatch
#28)
There
I go again. This time I'm abseiling off
Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. (November 2000)
Aren't
Afrikaners ridiculous? A bastard like Cecil Rhodes
makes for a monumental fool in the Western Cape (November 2000)
In
the Galapagos Islands, hanging with the sea lions
on Santa Fe Island. (Dispatch #31)
Sunrise
at Uluru (Ayers Rock)
in the center of Australia. (Dispatch
#27)
Here
I sit, proud, after having made it to the Sydney
Opera House and Harbour Bridge. (Dispatch
#26)
Getting
a
hug from a koala bear in Brisbane, Australia. (Dispatch
#26)
Embracing
history on the ramparts of Monte Fortress, Macau (Dispatch
#26)
Standing
at the moat of the truly awesome ruins of Angkor
Wat. (Dispatch #24
and #25)
Feeling
rapturous
atop
the towering ruins of Angkor Thom in Cambodia. (Dispatch
#24 and #25)
Traveling
by moto in the north of Cambodia. (Dispatch
#24 and #25)
Me,
three
miles up in Nepal. (Dispatch
#23)
My
highest point on my trek through
the Langtang Range of the Himalaya in Nepal.
(Dispatch #23)
A
shot of the avalanche
on Langtang Lirung (7245 meters tall) that was caused by an earthquake
earlier that day. (Dispatch
#23)
The
mountain people of Kyangjin Gompa, Nepal, try to evacuate an ill little
girl in this helicopter.
She was eventually kicked off for not having enough money. (Dispatch
#23)
Sunset
hiking at Kyangjin Gompa, in the Himalaya on
the border of Tibet and Nepal. (Dispatch
#23)
Dawn
of a new day on the River
Ganges in the ageless city of Varanasi, India. (Dispatch
# 22)
Sunset
over Rajasthan from the abandoned ballroom of Monsoon
Palace, a mountaintop aerie in Udaipur, India.
It's one of the best photos from the trip so far.(Dispatch
#20)
Yours
truly at a milestone in his trip: standing in front of the Taj
Mahal in Agra, India. Read about it in Dispatch
#20 and #21.
Me
handling the rodent idols at the Rat
Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India (Dispatch
#20)
A
panorama of the shocking
carnage from my near-death experience described
in Dispatch #14,
which gave me the name of my trip.
A
shot of me
and my buddy Deon in stunning Cape Town, South
Africa
A
sunrise shot of me atop a red
dune at Sössusvlei, Namibia (Dispatch
#17)
My
Danish friend Henrik about to throw me off a
towering dune at Langstrand, Namibia (Dispatch
#17)
The
fierce
desert dog near Swakopmund, Namibia that's become
the emblem for my journeys (Dispatch
#17)
The
comic mayhem of dozens
of wild elephants bathing at Okaukuejo, Etosha,
Namibia (Dispatch #17)
It's
just after dawn in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and I'm riding a traditional
mekoro through croc-infested waters, holding a
night-blooming water lilly. Is it opera or is
it my life? (Dispatch
#17)
An
Angolan
boy who was our ambassador for our crossing
(Dispatch #17)
My
harrowing white-water
rafting excursion through the Grade 5 rapids
of the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe (Dispatch
#17)
Pensive
by Derwent Water in Cumbria, England (September
1999)