Many Adventures of a Nomadic Poet A young poet with Asperger's makes travel his passion, and away he goes...

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Photo Galleries

• Honolulu [39]
• Maui [50]
• Phoenix [35]
• Cairo [200]
• Valley of the Kings [241]
• Luxor [328]
• Abu Simbel [131]
• Aswan [156]
• Red Sea [78]
• Hurghada [47]
• Malta [268]
• Piraeus [54]
• Athens [231]
• Mt. Wilhelm [151]
• Simbu [57]
• Jiwaka [67]
• Morobe [17]
• Port Moresby [130]
• Devil's Marbles [48]
• Great Central Road [138]
• Albany and Denmark [174]
• Kalbarri National Park [76]
• Kalgoorlie-Boulder [16]
• Augusta [47]
• Rottnest Island [85]
• Christmas Island [805]
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands [185]
• Wheatbelt [112]
• Karijini National Park [246]
• The Pilbara [96]
• Broome [80]
• Litchfield National Park [41]
• Thursday Island [58]
• Cape York Peninsula [469]
• Kuranda [43]
• Yarrabah [29]
• Magnetic Island [147]
• Townsville [20]
• Coolangatta and Tweed Heads [26]
• Eungella National Park [18]
• Whitsundays [282]
• Airlie Beach [162]
• Mackay [75]
• Khon Kaen [25]
• Vientiane [155]
• Chiang Mai [322]
• Bangkok [166]
• Dulan [40]
• Taitung [57]
• Taroko Gorge [33]
• Hualien [63]
• Taipei [199]
• California Coast [15]
• Mo'orea [431]
• Hao [16]
• Pitcairn Island [743]
• Mangareva [65]
• Tahiti [62]
• Back of Bourke [33]
• Grampians National Park [65]
• Country Victoria [20]
• Doha [73]
• Byron Bay [184]
• Oslo [198]
• Tromsø [17]
• Abisko [26]
• Narvik [58]
• Senja [51]
• Hønefoss [43]
• New York [98]
• Rakiura Track [53]
• Wallis [394]
• Kilkenny [77]
• Castlewellan [29]
• Ards Peninsula [135]
• Dublin [134]
• South Coast [35]
• Maldives [367]
• Buenos Aires [96]
• Neuquén [44]
• San Carlos de Bariloche [75]
• Ruta 40 [73]
• Perito Moreno Glacier [44]
• El Calafate [17]
• Torres del Paine [77]
• Puerto Natales [15]
• D'Hainaut Island [142]
• Hydrurga Rocks [95]
• Port Lockroy [112]
• Lemaire Channel [113]
• Neko Harbour [217]
• Useful Island [66]
• Portal Point [171]
• Mikkelsen Harbour [132]
• Halfmoon Island [123]
• King George Island [162]
• Drake Passage [55]
• Beagle Channel [37]
• Ushuaia [156]
• West Falkland [192]
• East Falkland [143]
• Stanley [188]
• Punta Arenas [123]
• Santiago [28]
• Dynamo Hut Track [54]
• Barossa Valley [21]
• Philadelphia [34]
• Vermont [7]
• Montréal [66]
• Trans-Canada Highway [24]
• Saint-Pierre [195]
• St. John's [108]
• Lehigh Valley [98]
• Central Grande Terre [89]
• Nouméa [62]
• Adelaide [85]
• Wairarapa [14]
• Manono [29]
• Aunu'u [13]
• Tutuila [79]
• Tokelau [199]
• Savai'i [141]
• 'Upolu [192]
• Lord Howe Island [373]
• Maryborough and Tiaro [106]
• Stanthorpe [17]
• Taree [3]
• Port Arthur [66]
• Hobart [8]
• Mt. Field National Park [19]
• New Norfolk [44]
• Overland Track [204]
• Northwest Tasmania [54]
• Launceston [64]
• Canberra [57]
• Nullarbor Plain [68]
• Fremantle [39]
• Perth [171]
• Macau [59]
• Hong Kong [82]
• DMZ and Kaesong [92]
• Nampo [83]
• Pyongyang [331]
• Beijing [61]
• Daegu [16]
• Busan [110]
• Lombok [111]
• Ben Lomond Track [68]
• Central Plateau [43]
• Mornington Peninsula [53]
• Melbourne [310]
• The Kimberley [260]
• Arnhem Land [6]
• Kakadu National Park [169]
• Darwin [100]
• Bali [739]
• Prambanan [96]
• Yogyakarta [70]
• Jakarta [19]
• Sumatra [184]
• Singapore [113]
• Batu Caves [88]
• Kuala Lumpur [63]
• Kyoto [98]
• Kobe [18]
• Ichiu [96]
• Iya Valley [55]
• Wakimachi [131]
• Mt. Fuji [70]
• Tokyo [177]
• Kondalilla National Park [16]
• Katikati [38]
• Norfolk Island [3000]
• Mount Aspiring National Park [71]
• Mount Cook Village [102]
• Golden Bay [45]
• Napier [263]
• Rarotonga [341]
• Oregon [36]
• Vancouver [102]
• Snoqualmie Falls [22]
• Redwood Forest [64]
• Rocky Mountain National Park [53]
• Fort Collins [66]
• Tucson [35]
• White Sands [34]
• Ruidoso [98]
• Roswell [16]
• San Antonio [37]
• Eastern Sierras [163]
• İstanbul [445]
• Wondo Genet [63]
• Awasa [33]
• Las Geel [16]
• Berbera [43]
• Hargeisa [41]
• Harar [182]
• Kombolcha [21]
• Lalibela [120]
• Maychew [95]
• Danakil Depression [261]
• Mek'ele [63]
• Tigray [18]
• Axum [100]
• Debark [32]
• Simien Mountains National Park [277]
• Gondar [187]
• Blue Nile Falls [53]
• Lake Tana [52]
• Bahir Dar [123]
• Addis Ababa [152]
• Guadelupe Canyon [134]
• Tijuana [10]
• Zion National Park [340]
• Constanza [92]
• Puerto Plata [42]
• Sosua [41]
• Caraballo [361]
• Tubagua [222]
• Santiago de los Caballeros [364]
• Santo Domingo [212]
• Antigua [68]
• Semuc Champey [62]
• Tikal [85]
• Flores [87]
• Xunantunich [78]
• Barton Creek [64]
• Caye Caulker [72]
• Belize City [17]
• Quiriguá [43]
• Copán [93]
• La Entrada [7]
• Suchitoto [117]
• Morazán [170]
• Marcala [57]
• Tegucigalpa [16]
• Eastern Honduras [12]
• Estelí [165]
• Jaco [21]
• Parque Nacional Carara [40]
• Beachy Head [127]
• Bocas del Toro [272]
• David [27]
• Boquete [155]
• Cahuita [97]
• Idaho [189]
• Seattle [190]
• Grand Cayman [3]
• Corn Islands [94]
• Managua [38]
• Isla de Ometepe [153]
• El Coco [6]
• Santa Clara and Trinidad [80]
• Valle de Viñales [106]
• Havana [173]
• Tortuguero [90]
• Volcán Irazú [23]
• San José [235]
• East Coast [30]
• Rees-Dart Track [223]
• Motueka [179]
• Great Barrier Island [128]
• Niue [240]
• Cook Strait [67]
• Kepler Track [118]
• Copland Track [42]
• Central Otago [80]
• Clyde [95]
• Milford Track [235]
• Stewart Island [135]
• Southland [216]
• Dunedin [99]
• Oamaru [46]
• Taranaki [93]
• Coromandel Peninsula [246]
• Waiheke Island [135]
• Tonga [214]
• Luxembourg [42]
• Rhine Valley [39]
• Bad Windsheim [53]
• Liege [14]
• Brussels [38]
• Amsterdam [43]
• Eindhoven [15]
• London [307]
• Huacachina [78]
• Nazca [57]
• Cañon de Colca [190]
• Arequipa [80]
• Lake Titicaca [166]
• Machu Picchu [118]
• Inca Trail [180]
• Cuzco [92]
• Valle de Ayacucho [65]
• Huancayo [109]
• Lima [38]
• Yosemite National Park [50]
• Volcán Arenal [57]
• Granada [162]
• Monteverde [138]
• Blue Lagoon [33]
• Jökulsárlón [193]
• Skaftafell National Park [180]
• South Iceland [179]
• Golden Circle [112]
• Kulusuk [94]
• Reykjavik [187]
• Fiji Islands [136]
• Gold Coast [18]
• Noosa [28]
• Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park [368]
• Watarrka National Park [92]
• Australian Outback [122]
• Alice Springs [40]
• Brisbane [112]
• Queensland Coast [29]
• Cape Tribulation and Daintree River [125]
• Green Island [65]
• Fitzroy Island [32]
• Cairns [55]
• Mackenzie Country [123]
• Milford Sound [135]
• Queenstown [616]
• Westland [470]
• Arthur's Pass [7]
• Christchurch [55]
• Kaikoura [58]
• Wellington [102]
• Taupo [58]
• Roturua [116]
• Waitomo Caves [29]
• Bay of Islands [124]
• Auckland [247]
• Blue Mountains [40]
• Sydney [507]

Where I've been

American Samoa   Antarctica   Argentina   Australia   Belgium   Belize   Canada   Cayman Islands   Chile   China   Christmas Island   Cocos (Keeling) Islands   Cook Islands   Costa Rica   Cuba   Dominican Republic   Egypt   El Salvador   Ethiopia   Falkland Islands   Fiji   French Polynesia   Germany   Greece   Greenland   Guatemala   Honduras   Hong Kong   Iceland   Indonesia   Ireland   Japan   Laos   Luxembourg   Macau   Malaysia   Maldives   Malta   Mexico   Netherlands   New Caledonia   New Zealand   Nicaragua   Niue   Norfolk Island   North Korea   Norway   Panama   Papua New Guinea   Peru   Pitcairn   Qatar   Saint Pierre and Miquelon   Samoa   Singapore   Somalia   South Korea   Sweden   Taiwan   Thailand   Tokelau   Tonga   Turkey   United Kingdom   USA   Wallis and Futuna Islands  

Favourites

• Favourite Nomads [17]
• Who's Favourited Me [3]

Highlights

• Turkish Delight, on a Moonlit Night
• Dental work in Costa Rica
• Rees-Dart Track
• On top of frustration, a car, and the world. One crazy story!
• Kiwi spotting
• My 24th! A Big Leap
• Cultural Granada
• Golden Circle: Þingvellir, Geysir, and Gullfoss
• Greenland
• Sunrise at Uluru

Near Misses

• Viking Ship Museum, Bygdøy, and...OH 3%@^
• Sin City, UGH!
• Emergency Landing!

My trip journals

• Ancient Worlds: Greece & Egypt (current)
• Kokoda Track
• Southeast Asia Mainland
• Taiwan R.O.C.
• Pitcairn Island
• Qatar Stopover
• Northern Lights
• Irish Roots
• Maldives
• Quest for Antarctica
• Newfoundland & Saint-Pierre
• French Flavour of Nouvelle-Caledonie
• Samoa, Tokelau, and American Samoa
• Asia 2015
• Living in the Land Down Under
• Southeast Asian Archipelago
• Japan Not-so-Dirty-30
• NZ vision journey
• Coffee journey: Ethiopia and Turkey
• Volunteering in the D.R.
• Central America trek
• England with Maria
• Panama travels
• US Travels
• My big OE in Aotearoa
• Ticos, Che, and Nicas
• My First Journey
• Europe: Trials & Tribulations
• Andes, Incas, and Llamas: Peru
• Land of Adrenaline & Beauty: New Zealand
• Journey to Two Lost Worlds: Costa Rica, and Nicaragua
• My Return to Australia: Reef, Rainforest, and Rock
• Land of the Midnight Sun: My Travels in Iceland