“Travel is about meeting new people, learning their culture and respecting it. In Africa, one of my tour guides had never tasted pizza, didn’t have a refrigerator but did have a fancy giant screen TV complete with satellite dish. The women carried water from the river in buckets on their heads each morning. They were always smiling, laughing and enjoying. At the end of my trip, my group and I donated our best hiking gear to the tour guides and their families – a gesture that was deeply rewarding.”

“Travel is about tasting the best food in the world! Sometimes, I can remember or reference a place just by the food I ate there.  I’ve had authentic Wiener schnitzel in Austria, sipped banana beer in Tanzania, had molten Death-Star chocolate dissolving dessert on a cruise ship and so on. I love to photograph it. In China, when no-one else spoke English, I just photographed my favorite dishes and then showed my photos to the waiters so I could get the same thing again!”