The Voyages of Leif the Lucky

I have always been a restless soul. The sound of a distant train whistle gets my blood pumping. Travel is addictive, and the more I travel, the harder it is to settle down anywhere. This page is devoted to my recent trip around the world, as seen through photographs I've taken along the way.

My first trip away from North America was to the UK and Paris with my family in 1987. That was an eye opening experience--a window into an entirely new world. When I graduated from high school in 1990, I took a whirlwind trip through Europe with my brother and father. In 1992, while a sophomore in college, I spent six weeks in Florence, Italy studying Renaissance art and drawing. In 1994, I made a trip to Spain for a month with a friend from school. I've travelled around the U.S., made short forays into Canada and Mexico...

...But after spending three years in Seattle working like a fiend as a computer programmer, I decided to pack up and make a trip around the globe. I drove from Seattle to San Francisco, then on through Death Valley, the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, the plains, and rested in Indiana where my parents live. I planned my trip in a couple of months and headed out in July of 1998. I flew from Chicago to New York, where I visited a friend in Brooklyn that I had known since high school. Then I headed across the Atlantic, beginning my whirlwind circumnavigation of the globe that brought me back to the States only six months later...but what an amazing six months! Now I'm living in Brooklyn and it looks like I've come full circle. I've been working in New York for a couple of years and I'm getting the itch again... entire continents yet to explore: Africa, South America...

Europe | Scandinavia | Russia | India | Nepal
Southeast Asia | Japan/China | Austalia/New Zealand