A very small sample of the vibrant life I led in Brooklyn. It was full of color and noise.

These are the moments I like to come back to.

Reporting on the food system and going to grad school in the hypnotic corn fields of Champaign, Illinois.

I lived in Ojiya-shi in Niigata, Japan in the Alps for two beautiful years. Clean water and fine rice make this region a sake-producing mecca--also a place for cayoning, snowboarding and surfing.

Industrious, forward, quick to laugh, quick to forgive. I truly covered Vietnam-from the southern most tip of the Mekong delta to the heavenly heights of Sapa on the Chinese border.

Thailand makes humans happy. Some combination of stunning landscape, Miraculous food, infectuous laidback attitude...

After raising some money in Japan, a group headed deep into the jungles of Papua New Guinea to build a house, and to be inducted into a local tribe. And, of course, to have wild boar slaughtered in our honor.

From a dirt landing strip at an experimental ecotourism industry to the cheeky monks in the cultural heart, Laos is fantastic. Many photos were lost.

Positive and warm against all odds, Cambodia extended itself to me.

A very brief encounter with a very deep, ancient culture.

Vast empty stretches and dense, friendly metropolises. Lovely, lovely Australia.

Getting lost in a rainforest, scheming with a medicine man, understanding what it means to be Indian, Chinese, Muslim and indigenious--in other words, Malaysian. Oh, and 10 plane rides with less than 10 passengers. .

From a camel safari on the Pakistani border in Rajasthan to backwater cruising in far-flung Karela, and every where in between, this is the rich, colorful sub-continent.