Travel

Like a lot of people, I have a great passion for travel, which goes well with my passion for photography. But perhaps unlike a lot of people, I’ve been fortunate to travel to many dozens of countries, especially as a child, youth, and young adult. I was born in England, and grew up there and in Ghana, Australia, and then Canada, and became a Canadian citizen as a teenager. Since then I’ve lived in the United States and Canada, and again in England. My wife is Japanese and we travel there too. Countries I’ve visited include the following:

- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Canada
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- India
- Iran
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kosovo
- Lichtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Mali (yes, I’ve actually been to Timbuktu)
- Mexico
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Philippines
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Yugoslavia

To me, though, more important than all the places one has visited is the attitude of being a tourist in your own back yard (in every good respect), in the spirit of “Going Nowhere.” In that sense, I always try to make the most of every nearby travel opportunity as passionately as opportunities that are much farther afield. That being said, I do have a few distant locations that I’d still badly like to visit:

- Alaska
- Easter Island
- Egypt (again)
- Galapagos
- Ghana (again)
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Israel (again)
- Morocco (and Gibraltar)
- New Zealand
- Peru
- Turkey

I’d also love to go skiing in the following locations (in addition to the many places I’ve already skied in North America and Europe—see “For the Love of Skiing”):

Dubai (indoors)
Japan
Lebanon
Muana Kea (Hawaii)
New Zealand
Okay, anywhere I haven’t already skied!