On Christmas Eve, in 2008, I woke up on a sailboat anchored in the Panama Canal. Howler monkeys were making a wonderful ruckus in the trees on shore. The waters of Gatun Lake lapped softly against our vessel. Humidity gave weight to the air. And our mooring buoy reeked of bird guano. It was, in […]
Shusaku Endo’s Silence As A Travel Book
In 1989, Martin Scorsese, the iconic American movie director who was still processing the enormous controversy surrounding his 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ, read a book while riding a bullet train in Japan. The book gripped him. Once back in the United States he secured the rights to make it into a movie. The movie, […]
Celebrating Ten Years Of Traveling With A Camera
This autumn marks the 10th anniversary of my first investment in a camera, and the first trip I made with it, which was to the West Bank. Also, this year marks the 20th anniversary of my first ever trip to Israel and the West Bank, which I did with a group of friends and fellow students […]
12 Photos: Watching Planes Land At Maho Beach, St. Maarten
Sad news came out of the Caribbean recently — sad at least to aviation enthusiasts — when KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced it would discontinue flying the Boeing 747 from Amsterdam to St. Maarten. The last scheduled flight happened on October 28, and now the route is filled by a smaller aircraft, the Airbus A330. What is wonderful […]
The Stranger Who Blessed Me (Mompos, Colombia)
I no longer remember the name of the gentleman in this photo. I do, however, remember that we met on the street my first day in Mompos, a sleepy town on the Magdalena River in Colombia. He said hello, and when he asked how long I would be visiting, I conveyed as best I could […]
Traveling Beyond The Sterility Of Statistics
Ba Chuc, a Vietnamese community in the Mekong Delta, sits just across the border from Cambodia. On April 18, 1978, Khmer Rouge soldiers entered the village from Cambodia and massacred 3,157 men, women, and children — almost the entire population. Today the skulls of many of the victims are on display in an outdoor memorial. Statistics, […]
12 Photos: Day Of The Dead In Oaxaca, Mexico
On the night of October 30, 2014, after a scenic six-and-a-half-hour trip from Mexico City, my bus pulled into the city of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. At last, after several years of wanting to be here, I was here, and just in time! In 2008, I sort of fell in love with Oaxaca through seeing […]
Voices: LeRoy Lawson from Tillamook, Oregon
Dr. LeRoy Lawson is originally from Tillamook, Oregon. He has served as President of Hope International University in Fullerton, California, as senior minister of Central Christian Church in Mesa, Arizona, and most recently as Professor of Christian Ministries at Emmanuel Christian Seminary in Johnson City, Tennessee. He has a Ph.D. in English. This is one way […]
Expanding Awareness Of Geography Through Travel
One morning on Ko Chang, Thailand, while sitting by the sea and preparing to breakfast on a pineapple pancake and a pineapple shake, I read a puzzling line in Simon Winchester’s book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883. Winchester pointed out that the 1969 film Krakatoa: East of Java contains a glaring geographical error in […]
How A Hitchhiker Answered A Prayer In The Jordan Valley
It’s not everyday that you stand on the side of a highway, a car pulls over, you get in, and moments later the driver says you’re an answer to prayer. It was November 5, 2010, and up until this car stopped, the day had been full of disappointments. I had left Jerusalem that morning and […]
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