I’ve been back in Boston now for nearly two weeks, occupied with work and family dinners and shoveling snow for hours at a time, and it seems I’ve forgotten to share the story of my first trip to South America. Sometime over the summer I managed to convince my friend Phil that it would be…
I’d say i’ve spent a not-so-insignificant portion of my time here on earth planning and researching far away cycling adventures that often times end when I click the little “x” at the top of my screen. Whether it begins with exploring the fjords of Norway via Google street view, or watching youtube videos of a…
Over the ten or eleven days I spent in Koforidua I did a lot. I worked at the Ability Bikes Bike shop almost every day, working closely with the worker-owners, and getting to know customers. I spent a day at Jackson Park watching the members of Ability Bikes play wheel chair basketball. I rode my…
Took a drive out to Newburyport, MA this morning and checked out Plum Island. Most of the island is a wildlife refuge that seemed primarily populated by bird watchers looking for snowy owls. Met a guy who saw eight, but we saw none. Instead I took the opportunity to practice shooting with this super wide…
Here’s some pictures I haven’t posted yet, in chronological order.
I spent the morning farming with my neighbors Sharon and George one day on Mfangano. They have three farms, one down by the water where they grow their basic vegetables year round, one next to their hut where they grow maize, and this one, which is up in the mountain. It was a Saturday morning…
Eastern Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan were amazing. After Diyarbakir, we took a bus straight to Dohok, Iraq, passing through some ancient ruins along the way. These pictures are of Hasankeyf, an ancient city dating back to 1800 BC. Unfortunately we weren’t able to get off the bus, but we got to see a few of…
We left Cappadocia around 4:30pm and caught a bus to Kayseri where we waited for 3 hours at the bus station. We were the only foreigners in sight and I noticed pretty quickly that there were a lot of people noticing us. Once we boarded our bus at 9pm, almost immediately one of the workers…
Took an overnight bus from Istanbul to Goreme, and spent the morning walking around taking pictures and video. We catch another bus at 4:45 that will take us overnight once again to Diyarbakir in the eastern Kurdish region. We’ll spend a couple days there and then head south to Iraq. Hopefully I’ll have some time…
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