Back in 1999 I had a dream to travel the world with a laptop and update a website along the way. Back then if you wanted to make a webpage about your travels, you had to build it yourself, so I did. Today of course there's Facebook, blogs, myspace, and even 'travelblog' pages with fancy graphics, interactive maps and more. Sure, I could upload all my journals to one of those sites and it would look a lot fancier, but I guess I like to keep this website as my little way of saying, "I did it back when....". Back when it was hard to find a computer at a hostel that was connected to the internet to check email (but if you found one, no-one was on it). Back when you took photographs and scanned them in later. Back before every backpacker had a cell phone or GPS. I love what technology has done for traveling, but I also feel fortunate that I got to have some great 'disconnected' adventures in the pre-internet days (and in the dawn of the internet days too).

Below are journals from some of my smaller trips, and the journal from my world trip. The world trip journal alone is over 600 pages printed out (a random visitor printed it out and shared that fact with me). Updating that journal with stories and photos was my job for 2 years of my life.

For any link with an 'fp' at the end of it, it means that I was too lazy to write a journal, so that link takes you to Fanette's photos at Picasa.

Please do enjoy.

1984		11 day Bus tour of the Outback of Australia
1985		2 weeks driving New Zealand
1986		Road trip across the USA (CA to MI)
1995		Summer working a fishing boat - Seattle / Alaska
97 & 98		New Orleans / Mardi Gras
1998		EuroWander - a month in UK, Netherlands, Belguim, France, Spain, Italy
1999		Hong Kong
1999		Las Vegas
2000		Millenium new years in Jamaica
2000		New Orleans - Mardi Gras
2000		London and some town near Stonehenge for a wedding
2000		Lima / Cuzco, peru
2001		Burningman, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
2002		New Years in Lima/Mancora, Peru
2002		San Francisco
2002		Motorcycle trip around West Virginia
2002-2004		2 year World Trip - 33 countries
2005		Tokyo, Japan pic
2006		Vietnam fp
2006		France and Spain fp1 fp2 fp3
2007		Bali and Gilis, Indonesia fp
2008		India - One month through Rajasthan by train fp
2009		Northern Thailand by motorcycle
2010		Egypt fp
2010		Morocco fp
2010		France and USA fp
2010		A month living in Bangkok studying Thai
2011		Southern Thailand by Motorcycle
2011		6 week honeymoon in Nepal
2011		Paris and Besançon
2012		One year traveling France and working on Organic farms
2013		Southbound Wander - Drive from DC to Savannah and back.
2014		Paris and Besançon
2014		Northbound Wander - Drive from DC to New Hampshire and back.
2015		Paris and Besançon
2016		Paris and Besançon
2016		Milan, Italy
2017		Paris and Besançon
2018		Key West
2018		Paris and Besançon

Country tally: 41

USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Belguim, England, Scotland, Czech Republic, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Japan, Vietnam, India, Egypt, Morocco

N.America, S.America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa

Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, W. Virginia, Virginia, DC, Maryland, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Washington, Hawaii, Michigan, California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Georgia, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico (does not count layovers or drive bys)

Lived in:

Hawaii 11 years   -   Sydney, Australia 3 years   -   Detroit, MI 1 year   -   Philadelphia, PA 6 years   -   Slippery Rock, PA 3 years   -   Washington DC 6 years   -   Koh Tao, Thailand 4 years   -   Khao Lak, Thailand 3 years   -   Paris and Normandy, France 1 year   -   Washington DC 5 years