// THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
Though I’ve moved on to new chapters in life, I’ve left these pages up as a record of my journey, as a reminder of all the places I’ve been and the wonderful people I met along the way. It was on a cool Autumn morning, November 1st of 2013, that I left New York and embarked upon a trip around the world. By the end of it, by the time Covid came to close out this portion of my life, I had seen more than 70 countries on six continents. I traveled exactly 2,643 days, much of that with local families and indigenous villagers, some of it in hostels, occasionally a few months here and there in private apartments. I covered 60,868 miles by land. I did just shy of 3,000 miles by boat, exploring the Amazon, the Mekong, and the riverways of Africa’s Okavango Delta. I made some amazing friendships, had photos published in several prestigous outlets—National Geographic and Lonely Planet just to name a few, and I saw more of this world than any soul should expect to see in a single lifetime. Now that my journeys have concluded, I scarcely believe that it was me who accomplished them, that a simple farm kid from the Midwest could have pulled off such a daring feat. But he did — and below are the photos, the memories, and the undeniable joys of the road less traveled.
TURKEY
ISTANBUL
THE CATS OF ISTANBUL
No one truly knows just how many street cats live in 'Catstantinople' but estimates range from 150,000 to more than a million.
QUARANTINED IN TURKEY
Well, so a global pandemic happened. My two weeks here turned into nearly half a year. So it goes.
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