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Stories from the road, often outrageous, frequenty funny, occasionally bizarre. Ideally, you should print them out and read them before bed, on a bus, toilet, or toilet on a bus (to enjoy the literal and literary bumps). Each report was written on the fly, so to speak, and it's just like being right there with me, the world without the bugs.
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Latest Report: Facing a Bone Crusher on Prince Edward Island

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  • Facing a Bone Crusher on Prince Edward Island

    Lobsters are like prehistoric aliens with giant claws capable of crushing a man’s gonads to dust. They’re also delicious, which is why I set out one morning to pull in 300 lobster traps and stand knee deep in fish guts.

  • Flying Doctors and the Migration of the Wildebeest

    This week in East Africa, I discover two sides to a coin. The luxury, beauty and exotic wildlife of the ultimate safari, complete with butlers, five-star tents, and the migration of the wildebeest. In Nairobi, a different story, as I take to the air with the Flying Doctors, participating in a medical evacuation, and seeing the human cost of violence. This is Africa, and there is nowhere else like it.

  • Heat, Dust and Dirt Bikes in Egypt

    The traffic, chaos and 3000 years of bureaucracy take their toll, but I manage to Belly Dance over the Nile anyway. After clocking in at the pyramids, it’s off to the Sinai to rock the desert by ATV, dirt bike and dune buggy. Egypt has stayed much the same since my last visit 16 years ago. I haven’t.