About me
I'm an explorer who happens to write and maintain a camera on my person at all times. Foreign travel is exotic but doesn't happen all that frequently so I've come to covet the American open road. Few things in our lives are as liberating, empowering, and rejuvenating as a solo road trip. Adventurous solo road trips have become a staple for me, and a curiosity. So the website was created to share them and inspire others to step out and give them a try.
My latest articles
Mogao Caves of China’s Gansu Province
Art and Culture, 06-18-2009The heat sears my neck as I turn over my camera equipment at the heavily guarded checkpoint. No photos are allowed of what we’re about to see. Between the heat and my nakedness I lack the proper anticipation for what lies in the beehive of caves ahead.
Sullen, I fall to the back of the small group as we enter the…
China’s Wild West
Free spirit, 06-16-2009This isn’t Beijing. It’s on the opposite side of the country, as far away as you can get from the major Chinese travel destinations. And if you managed to get here (a feat my friend), without knowing where you were headed you wouldn’t recognize it, or anyone living here, as being associated with China.
We embarked from Kashgar (Kashi) airport into…
Take a Solo Road Trip!
Free spirit, 05-21-2009We’re a nation teetering on social burn-out. The multitude of devices designed to bind us together like links in a chain has made it difficult to go to the bathroom and be alone. Articles on efficiency are prolific: how to cut a minute off some task, make your morning shower more efficient, and speed up this or that. And yet…
