Featured Photo: Family selling water at Amber Fort, Rajasthan, India

On September 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In early 1995 I spent a few weeks in northern India, where one of my favorite places I visited was Jaipur and its surrounding area in the vibrant province of Rajasthan. I took this photo at Amber Fort, a short distance outside Jaipur. This family was selling water to visitors, and I was struck by [...]

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Featured Photo: Father and son on the Bund, Shanghai, China

On September 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In March 2008 I was in Shanghai as a tour manager for a special program examining the role of China in the changing Far East. During a rare period of free time I wandered along the city’s famous seaside promenade, the Bund, across the river from the futuristic buildings of the Pudong district. Amidst the [...]

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Featured Photo: Boats on the Ganges at dawn, Varanasi, India

On September 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In February 1995 I traveled to India to visit a friend who was studying in the ancient holy city of Varanasi (also known as Benares). One day at dawn we took a boat out on the Ganges River to watch the sunrise. It was very peaceful, a far cry from the constant bustle that characterized [...]

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Featured Photo: Young musician in rural Nicaragua

On September 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

I took this photo in March 2010 while visiting the rural community of Malacatoya in the Boaco department northeast of Managua. I was there as a writer accompanying a video crew from Green Living Project that was documenting the work of the Nicaraguan organization AsoFenix, which is bringing clean drinking water and household electricity to [...]

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Featured Photo: Flying flamingos, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

On September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

Taken in October 2007. I was in Patagonia as the tour manager for a Smithsonian Journeys group. On one of our days in Torres del Paine National Park we stopped at Laguna Amarga for some birdwatching. When I first spotted them, these flamingos were standing in the water, but I could tell they were getting [...]

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Featured Photo: Danube River, Budapest, Hungary

On September 3, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Postcards

In September 2006 I had was the tour manager for a Stanford Travel/Study program aboard a river boat cruise on the upper Danube River. We spent several days in Prague, then drove to Nuremberg, where we embarked on our river journey through parts of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary. We disembarked in Budapest and spent [...]

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Featured Photo: Closeup of glacier in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

On August 31, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Postcards

Between 2003 and 2005, I cruised Alaska’s Inside Passage five times as a tour manager escorting groups aboard large cruise ships. One of the most stunning places on the itinerary was Glacier Bay National Park, where nearly a dozen tidewater glaciers – glaciers that have advanced far enough to reach the sea – calve icebergs [...]

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Featured Photo: Tranquil harbor in Ushuaia, Argentina

On August 24, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Postcards

I took this photo in November 2008 at the end of an expedition cruise at the southern tip of South America. After four days of sailing the Straits of Magellan and the Beagle Channel, stopping at Cape Horn and other remote spots, we arrived in Ushuaia, Argentina, on the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego [...]

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La Serena sunset

Featured Photo: Sunset at La Serena, Chile

On August 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In 1995, after graduating from college, I spent a month traveling through South America with two friends, starting in Buenos Aires, where one friend had lived the year before, and ending in Ecuador, where the other friend and I had studied. In Chile, we traveled north from Santiago to the coastal town of La Serena, [...]

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Featured Photo: Laughing iguana? Galapagos Islands

On August 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

Taken in January 2008. I was in the Galapagos Islands as the tour manager for a group from American Museum of Natural History Expeditions. We spent eight days cruising the Galapagos on a small expedition ship, stopping at various islands. This marine iguana was basking in the sun at Punta Suárez on Española (Hood) Island.

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