I like to make nature films. Anyone who subscribes to my Youtube channel understands this. I like to think of myself as a modern-day Steve the Crocodile Hantah mixed with a bit of old PBS nature shows. Then when you combine these two bits, you throw in a dash of WHAT-THE-HELL and blend thoroughly. My [...]
Posts Tagged ‘travel’
How Highway 101 and Highway 280 explain (almost) everything
July 8th, 2010
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In late May of this year, I wrapped up my work as a Faiths Act Fellow with the Interfaith Youth Core and Tony Blair Faith Foundation. My site-partner Hafsa (you can read Hafsa’s wondrous blog here) and I lived in the South Bay, and we used office space provided by Islamic Networks Group. Our interfaith/malaria [...]
Rosetta Stone
July 30th, 2009
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There it is. When I was a kid, I learned that Jean-François Champollion was the name of the French scholar who had decoded the stone. From that point on, I imagined myself as a young Champollion, someday traveling to the sands of a far-away place and digging up some language fragment that I would then [...]
Kenya Series – Mt. Longonot
July 6th, 2009
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A fantastic slide show, complete with funny captions, follows this post. Our team from The 1010 Project spent a few days visiting with a partner in Western Province, then headed to Lake Naivasha in the Central Highlands of Kenya. Naivasha is big and beautiful – it’s in the bottom of the Great Rift Valley – [...]
JAMBO – Kenya Living
June 17th, 2009
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Hello all. I feel strange for not being able to blog this excursion up, but my connections have been a bit slow. Oh well. It’s nice to be able to touch base here. I’m sure I’ll tweet this when we hit the road again, but if I had two words to describe the Kenyan countryside, [...]
In the Grand Scheme of Things
September 23rd, 2008
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“The chronicles of Jerusalem are a gigantic quarry from which each side has mined stones for the construction of its myths and for throwing at each other.” The above quote comes from Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem. It reminded me a bit of an exchange that I had with a former professor [...]
The Long March (on wheels)
June 17th, 2008
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Driving from northern Illinois to Denver back in August was pretty tiring, even though I was never behind the wheel. I at least had my brother to talk to. Took off from the farm at just shy of 8 a.m. this morning and headed West, young man. Nobody in the car with me. Silence most [...]
Came to a Bridge
May 1st, 2008
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It looks as though I’m going to be staying in the States for the summer. Does this bug me? Sure, it does. I had really, really wanted to get back out there and at the very least do a bit of language training in Anatolia. The big target was, as usual, Central Asia. So I [...]
Sleeping In
March 17th, 2008
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The plan: Wake up at 3 a.m. MST. Get showered and finish packing the few things left outside my bags. Eat the rest of my bread, a banana, and some ricecakes. Spend 20 minutes worrying about what I’m leaving behind. Head out to the bus stop and catch the 15 – Billings at 4:28. Head [...]
Distance
February 2nd, 2008
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I recently received a text late one evening from a friend in Chicago. She mentioned a terrible headache and the fear that accompanied it. We talked about headaches, checklisting the various alternative therapies that could possibly relieve some of the pain. I made a passing remark about driving her to the hospital if she really [...]
