A BRIEF HISTORY of MY TRAVEL

1980. Mexico. Climb Popocatepetl, my highest mountain.
1996. Patagonia (Chile & Argentina). Torres del Paine, Perito Moreno, Fitzroy
2006/2007. Drive from Canada to SW USA and Cabo San Lucas in Baja Mexico.
2007.2008. Drive from Canada to the Yucatan, Mexico.
2008/2009. Drive across Canada and down the eastern United States to Key West.
2009/2010. 3 months in New Zealand. Trekked all Nine Great Walks.
2010/11. CENTRAL AMERICA – Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize.
Spring 2011 – Camino de Santiago. Walked 1,650 km from Le Puy, France, to Santiago  
2011-12 – SOUTH AMERICA – Colombia, Ecuador (Galapagos), Peru, Bolivia, Chile (Easter Island), Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela (Roraima)   
Summer 2012 – Drive to Washington State, British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska.
2012-13 – SOUTH ASIA – Nepal (28-day trek), India (4 1/2 months), Sri Lanka, Maldives, Singapore
2013-14 – SOUTHEAST ASIA – Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Sabah, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan
Aug 2014 – Burning Man
2014-15 – EAST ASIA – Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, China, Palau, Indonesia
2015-16 – THE SILK ROAD – China, Tibet, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel
Oct 2016 – Raft Grand Canyon
Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 – WEST AFRICA – 5 1/2 months overland – Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini / Sarawak Malaysia
Nov 2017 – Vietnam
2017 – Oct 2019 – EUROPE (every country). Drive VW California 200,000 km
Oct-Dec 2019 – WESTERN ASIA – Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Syria, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Iraq (Kurdistan)
Mar–July 2020 – North America East. Finished all 50 US states
July-Dec 2021 – Italy, south and north France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Cyprus, Egypt, Seychelles, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan
Jan – May 2022 – SOUTH AMERICA – Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Mexico City. CARIBBEAN – Cruise to Sint Maarten & Saint Martin, Dominica, British Virgin Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Kitts & Nevis. Independent travel to the Dominican Republic, Haiti, El Salvador, Paraguay, Brazil, Jamaica, the Bahamas
Sept-Jan 2023 – AFRICA I Libya, Iraq, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Algeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Central African Republic, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia
Feb-Jan 2023 – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh
AFRICA II Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, Madagascar, Comoros
SOUTH PACIFIC – China, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Nauru, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Hawaii
April-July 2024 – Last Three/Four – St Vincent & the Grenadines, SW England, Equatorial Guinea, Socrata Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China
Oct 24-26 2024 – Fiji, Tuvalu #193.
Feb-April 2025 – Puebla, Mexico, Bogota, Peru, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, northern Argentina.