Apr – May 2026
New Zealand 2026
Fourteen days, two islands, one lost day at the date line — skydiving, SkyJumping, Edoras, and a first live kiwi.
Oct – Nov 2025
Italy 2025 — A Jubilee Pilgrimage
A Holy Year on foot and by train: a 13th-century castle in Umbria, the Via di Francesco, and a volunteer's green vest at the Holy Door.
Apr 2025
Colorado 2025 — Front Range Homecoming
Twenty years of home in the rearview: Colorado College, the Cripple Creek gold district, Pikes Peak in snow, and the last corn snow of the season.
Oct – Nov 2024
Italy 2024 — Return to Umbria
A five-star fortress in Perugia, Assisi after the buses leave, cats running a church, and a train strike finale across Rome.
Nov 2022
Assisi 2022 — In the Footsteps of Saint Francis
The first pilgrimage: the Porziuncola, the Basilica of Saint Francis, morning mists over the valley, and San Damiano.
Apr 1998
Antarctica 1998 — Vernadsky Station
Zodiacs off the Laurence M. Gould through the sea ice to the Ukrainian base on Galindez Island: a desalination plant, a bar the British left behind, and excellent vodka.
1990 – 1996
McMurdo Station — Living and Working on the Ice
Three winter-overs of thirteen months each: writing code for the NSF, the comms link across to Black Island, a chili cookoff in the dark, and a cross at Hut Point that has stood since 1902.
1993 – 1994
South Pole Station — A Year at Ninety South
Twenty-seven people under the Dome: a nine-metre dish and a wobbly satellite bringing the first internet to the Pole, a comet hitting Jupiter, neutrino strings in the ice, and the 300 Club.
1996 – 1999
Palmer Station — Two Seasons on the Peninsula
The smallest American station, on bare rock under a hundred feet of glacier: Zodiacs through the brash ice, bamboo flags marking the crevasses, cod caught off the pier for the aquarium, and the seals you had to move first.
1996
Chile — Punta Arenas, Santiago & Valparaíso
The port at the bottom of the continent where every trip to Palmer Station began: the Polar Duke at the pier, seven-metre seas in the Strait of Magellan, a parade in the rain, and a week of software installs in Santiago.
Nov 1994
Australia — The Great Barrier Reef
Off the Ice on an open-ended military ticket and straight into eighty-seven degree water: seven dives out of Cairns, blacktip reef sharks behind the galley, Fitzroy Island and the Daintree.
Nov 1995
Bali — Ubud & the Liberty Wreck
Ask an Australian where they go on holiday. A boat of candles set alight at the water’s edge, a driver and guide for five dollars a day, the Barong and the Kris, and a wall at Menjangan that drops away into blue.