Around the US and Canada 2009

taking the train back home


contemplating the Grand Canyon


Mesa Verde National Park


One of my country's founding fathers - Thomas Jefferson. They don't make leaders like this anymore here.


Liberty Bell and Independence Hall


A rare Vermeer on display in New York


Jack Kerouac's backpack!!!


My second visit to the grave of one of my heroes


Arriving in Canada on Canada Day!










Habitat 67 in Montreal


Surfers on the Saint Lawrence river


an old brick factory


Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta


Dinosaur poo?


a day in the life.... of a dinosaur


old batteries at Bar-U Ranch






Jack Kerouac worked here! Desolation Peak fire lookout


Ross Lake


Gulf of Georgia Cannery


One of the best hikes ever... no I'm not going to tell you where.


Canadian Rockies


This kind of thing really ruins a vacation


Sikh Gurdwara outside Edmonton


Northern Lights! It only lasted a few minutes but it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.


Waterton Lakes National Park


Glacier National Park




I got to visit the home of another one of my literary heroes






Wolf House ruins on Jack London's ranch




Sequoia National Park, Sherman tree

Dreamtime

Kakadu National Park is home to some amazing Aboriginal rock art





And some incredible landscapes.



It wasn't very fun to visit though, among other reasons because every morning there were hundreds maybe even thousands of local Australians waiting to greet me outside my tent, hungry for my blood.



This is a typical spider in the Australian outback, it's as big as my hand.



I get the feeling that this part of Australia has an serious insect problem, this is a typical termite mound.

day in the life... Timor-Leste

Sunrise



Swim, read, nap, repeat.



Sunset