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Travel by Motorcycle

Travel by motorcycle Motorbikes offer a lot of freedom compared to public transportation because you can stop whenever you want to rest, take pictures, and control your own schedule. It helps if you have a little experience driving a bike but some of the small bikes for rent in some countries don’t take long to [...]

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Guatemala

Guatemala 1992 When I quit my enviable job with Boeing aircraft everyone told me I was nuts but I just couldn’t see the point of scrambling after the dollar every day working from 3:18 in the afternoon till 3:48 the following morning. I had a new truck, an airplane, other toys and lots of credit [...]

Botswana – South Africa

Road trip Africa – Botswana In 1985 I flew into Johanasburg. After several years of fishing in the Aleutian Islands it was time for some sunshine. Our plane stopped over in London.That city is a trip in itself. The weirdest thing to me was that the vendors had their magazines for sale out in the [...]

Apalachicola and Carrabelle

Florida Gulf Shores Clean white sand beaches run along the gulf shores near Apalachicola, Florida an area surrounded by national forest. Shrimp boats line up at the docks near the fish processing plants. If you love the sea this is a great place to unwind for a couple of days. Listening to the gulls while [...]

Korea Pictures – 1969

Korea 1969 Here are a few photographs that I dug out of a shoebox that was in the back of the closet. They brough back some nice memories so I decided to scan them and put them on a page where someone else might enjoy them. These are from somewhere between 1967 to 1970. At [...]

Laos – Mekong River

Mekong River Bobbing along on the tourist barge down the Mekong to Luan Prabang is pretty cool. Most of the Lao people buzz by in their jet boats because they don’t have the time to waste on the slow boat. Lao visas were only given for a few weeks so it became pretty much a [...]

Cambodia pictures 1999

Cambodia Here are some pictures of Ankor Wat and the road to Poipet, the border town on the way to Thailand. The ruins of Ankor are a great place to spend a few days. This was 1999. At that time the tourist infrastructure was pretty well established already with some expensive hotels and service to [...]