So, three years ago, I moved to Seoul, Korea and spent two years working there and traveling
around Asia and came back and wanted to visit my brother in Georgia.
And after three weeks of being here, I had to convince him to sell his house and pretty
much everything in it and come on around the world trip with me.
So this is what was left after the house was sold.
We bought 14 tickets.
We started in the UK.
And one of the first places I took him was the Tate Modern because he is what you would
call a country boy and I'm an artist.
So I wanted to take him to an art museum and he loved the installation piece there that
he could slide down.
So also this is where my obsession with sheep started.
I know that sounds weird.
We ended up going to Russia next.
We, food was a big part of our trip.
My brother really loves food.
So we searched out Mexican restaurants in pretty much every country and this guy was a singer
in a Mexican restaurant in Moscow and I can't tell you what it means to hear someone say
I want to break free.
So in a Mexican restaurant in Moscow.
We were also in St. Petersburg on May the 9th, which is victory day for them.
We had the chance to watch the parade of all the veterans who were in the war at that time.
And all of the young adults and children bring them flowers and it's just, it was a really
amazing day to stand in the rain and watch these people receive gifts from a whole nother
generation.
We went to Moscow and for four days tried to go to the Red Square and get that ideal
tour shot of the St. Basil's Cathedral and this is what we were greeted with on the left
every day.
It was closed and we couldn't get anywhere near it.
So on the last day we finally by accident stumbled across it and it was open after we
had taken a very long ferry ride and they had dropped us off and not taken us back so
we had to walk for miles.
We went to Santorini, one of the Greek islands and this was the point where we actually just
relaxed and stopped being tourists for a little while.
So this is our cliff diving experience in Santorini.
My brother is in the middle on the bottom diving off and that was a dangerous day.
We then went to Eastern Europe where in the top corner was one of the most unusual things
we saw.
In Budapest we stumbled across the Native American band.
I don't really know why.
Also at the bottom is my brother after 28 years finishing his first book, which was a very
proud day for me.
Then we went to Poland and visited Auschwitz and Birkenau, which was an experience that
I don't really think that you can put into words.
It was a very sobering experience and a very amazing day.
It's somewhere that I think everyone should visit.
These images just don't do justice what you feel when you go there and walk into the gas
chambers.
Italy was one of our favorite places.
On the bottom I tried to reenact a movie that day where you run through the piazza and the
birds fly up, but they just weren't cooperating that day, I think because I didn't feed them.
I also had to get the butt shot of the David.
I know I wasn't supposed to take pictures, but I did not use flash.
We then went to Egypt and unfortunately we only spent four days there.
We managed to get to all the major cities and get really sick, but Egypt is somewhere
that I was a little disappointed with only one thing there, and that was the pyramids.
You don't actually ride camels through the desert for days to get to them.
They're right in the middle of the city.
Then we went to Syria for eight days where we were very sick from Egypt.
This was my brother's 29th birthday and we spent it doing laundry in the bathtub.
We didn't leave the hotel room for pretty much eight days.
We were so sick.
That's our laundry day there.
After we left Syria, we went to Africa, which was the highlight of our trip.
We met African penguins, which are such cool animals.
Also, on the bottom right, we met a couple who we went through the process of them buying
their bike and planning their bike trip around Africa they were going to do for a year, which
inspired me to do my next trip, which will be in South America.
I'm going to do a bike trip around South America with my dad and my brother.
We also went on an overland adventure and camped out in the wilderness.
I felt that it was my duty to teach this particular Australian how to light a campfire with only
one match because it's one of the few skills I have.
There you see my brother bringing the wood on the left.
It was quite a large piece.
It burned for two days.
Then we went to Namibia.
The sand dunes in Namibia are just an amazing place.
The top right is Dune 45, which is the famous one.
It took us about two and a half hours to walk halfway up that dune.
For every two steps you take, you fall back about three.
It's pretty difficult, but we watched the sunset from the top of that.
We also had kind of an adventure day.
On the bottom right, you see a white parachute, which I don't know if anyone knows anything
about skydiving, but that's not normal.
That's the reserve shoot for my friend, Zara.
Her shoot didn't open, so they had to go the reserve shoot.
That was the day I actually decided I might could skydive because I saw that there is
a backup.
These are two of the scariest things that happened in Africa.
I got to Pettichita, which was very frightening.
Also, we were in these little canoes called Makoros, and that elephant charged our Makoro,
which was pretty scary.
The people in front of us jumped out and started running, except the guy forgot his wife behind.
These are the locals.
This whole canoe trip was in the Acavango Delta.
These are the people that live in the Acavango Delta, and they took us out there and camped
with us and shared a lot of their culture.
It was not commercialized at all.
It was just they would sit around and teach us how to weave, and teach us how to make
fire with elephant poo, and just really spent time with us, which was probably the best
part of the trip for me.
I have always made fun of people who take pictures of sunsets and show them to me.
Maybe secretly I've made fun of them, but I realized after looking through my slides,
I have ridiculous amounts of sunset photos.
This guy in Africa is something that you just can't describe at any point in the day when
you look at the sky.
It's amazing.
We went to Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe is a country that is full of beautiful natural sites.
This is Victoria Falls, but it's also a very sad place because of the government and political
situation there.
Our first meal, there were eight of us, and it cost 16 million Zimbabwe dollars for us
to eat, which was about $12.
This is my last image.
Those shoes, I know it's ridiculous to take pictures of shoes, but those left the country
with me the first time I ever left the country, and my brother finally made me throw them away
because we couldn't really stay in the tent anymore.
They smelled so bad, so I had to take a picture of them to remember them.
After Africa, we went to Australia, and that's it.
