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AUTHOR, explorer, PEACE Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n Lowell Thomas Gold Award-Winner for Best Travel Book, <\/span>\u00a0Society of American Travel Writers Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”Nunito||||||||” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” min_height=”1190px” custom_margin=”-53px|||||” custom_padding=”|||0px||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”right” animation_intensity_slide=”5%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n As an author\/photographer and explorer, I’ve hiked over 12,000-kilometres in search of meaning and enlightenment. It began innocently enough.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n While traveling the length of Africa with my new wife, Cheryl, we discovered the beauty of slow-travel, or “traveling outside while traveling within.” What a difference that made.<\/span><\/p>\n On our return, we soon organised an 1100-km indy trek across Tibet with our horse. Our struggles and that of our oppressed Tibetan hosts are captured in my book Yak Butter Blues<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Afterwards, I was drawn to the world’s great pilgrimage trails, as portals to consciousness. In 2006, a friend and I pioneered the 4223-km trail of the First Crusades from France to Jerusalem, naming it the Templar Trail. That sojourn inspired my book Along the Templar Trail<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Still seeking challenges, in 2009, Cheryl and I became the first American couple to thru-hike the 1800-km Via Alpina across eight countries from Trieste, Italy to Monte Carlo, which led to writing my book Over the Top & Back Again: Hiking X the Alps.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n These walkabouts continue to be my passion; my “trampoline for the mind.” I hope my stories inspire you, too.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0PILGRIMAGE\/PEACE WALKS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0TRAVEL ADVENTURES & MORE<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0PUBLISHED WORKS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span> HONORS<\/span><\/strong> Amnesty International Leadership Group<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n FEATURED ARTICLES: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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