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My Antarctica Video

TweetI can’t believe that it’s been 9 months since I was in Antarctica.  I could have had a child in that period of time.  It really does feel like it happened just yesterday.  But at the same time, it almost feels as if it was a dream; and the truth was it was a dream. [...]

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Big Announcement: The Launch of Vagabundo Magazine

TweetIt is with great excitement I reveal one of my projects: an online travel magazine for independent travellers. I would like to present you to Vagabundo Travel Magazine The Inspiration Interesting projects and opportunities seem to have come and gone through my email inbox and conversations at a rapid pace over the past year.  Many of those [...]

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Zip-lining on Ometepe Island

TweetI’ve become a little bit of a zip-line snob. The activity, which involves one strapping them self to a wire and slinging from tree to tree, is one that I’ve taken part in often. I first cruised the trees via zipline transportation in Monteverde, Costa Rica, a place I would highly recommend. The truth is, [...]

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La Miel

Paradise Found: La Miel, Panama

TweetAs I arrive in the town of Sapzurro, Colombia after a relatively long hike over a steep mountain the Darien Jungle heat, my body begs me for a moment of reprieve from the heat, humidity and muscle aches.  I pull up a chair at a tiny restaurant off the main sidewalk in town and ask [...]

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Rick's Cafe Cliff Diving

Cliff Diving at Rick’s Cafe in Negril, Jamaica

TweetGroups of people encircle a pool of pale blue water with their eyes set eagerly to the manicured cliff that stretches from the sea. At the edge a brave soul steps up to the challenge and launches off into the cove flailing their arms in hopes of somehow finding balance. Onlookers hold their breaths partly [...]

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Brendan van Son in Cerro Cora National Park

Searching For Jaguars

TweetThis site has always been a documentation of the world I see through my eyes and it will continue to play out that way.  I know that I am am very blessed to be given the opportunity to travel the world, and I feel even more blessed to be able to share my experience with [...]

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My Big Five

Tweet I make the claim so often to people that I don’t have a bucket list.  For me to compile a list of things that I want to see in this world would be silly.  Quite simply, I want to see every single bit of this world, and not leave any place unseen or any [...]

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Being Shot at in Nicaragua

TweetIn the Winter of 2005 I took a semester off of University to try to find direction in my life.  I traveled to Central America, a place I knew very little about.  I fell in love with the culture, the people, and most of all the history.  Nicaragua changed me and gave me direction as [...]

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Piranha Fishing: Watch your Fingers!

Tweet I am a horrible fisherman. It is really boring isn’t it? Yes, it is a great excuse to head out to a beautiful lake around sun rise with a some buddies and have a couple of beers way earlier than you’re normally allowed to, but the hours and hours of sitting there waiting hopelessly [...]

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Florianopolis Part Two: The Ibiza of South America

TweetFlorianopolis Part Two: The Ibiza of South America “What are we doing tonight?” I chimed at a group of fellow travelers wasting the day away swinging in cocoon-like hammocks occasionally looking up in laughter to tell another story of the preceding night. “Same thing we do every night” piped up one of the most sunk [...]

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