Alaska on motorcycle

These pictures were taken during a trip I took with my girlfriend to Alaska.

One summer we were bored and started watching a show on Alaska. Started to talk about it and two days later we were on the road.

We drove my motorcycle from San Diego to Alaska. the trip and scenery was amazing. It took us two weeks to get to Fairbanks, Alaska. 

We then stayed there a week and toured the area. However, when it was time to ride back my girlfriend pulled rank and said she was flying back. She said it was fun but too much to return on the motorcycle. She flew back and I stayed one more month exploring Alaska and then drove back by my self.  

New Zealand

On most of my travels, I would be out of the country for around 6-12 months at a time.

To be able to sustain a trip of that length would require quite a bit of money (one thing that is in short supply), so I would always try to find local jobs in a place I liked to be able to extend my trip. On one of my trips to New Zealand, I found an amazing little restaurant in the South Island, it was in the woods and everywhere you looked was paradise. I asked the owner if she needed help and ended up staying and working there for six months. The pictures are of the family I stayed with and also me working. The other picture is of a fjord in the South Island.  It is an amazing experience to see and walk on a fjord. The work was basic, but had a great time, met many locals and best of all kept me in New Zealand for 6 months. A win-win by my standards

Israel

On one of my trips, I went to Israel and toured the country. When my money ran out I got a job in  Kibbutz Geva.  A Kibbutz is how the country of Israel basically became started. They are small communities where everyone works for the good of all and share the profits.  I was in one in the center of the country (Geva) and we would take trips on the weekends all over the country. 

Some of the Kibbutz on the North would get attacked at night and were actually armed camps for the protection of the people. I was there during the Intifada and was caught up in a riot in Jerusalem and had the pleasure of smelling tear gas for an extended period of time. One of the highlights of that trip was going to Bethlehem for midnight mass on Christmas Eve help at the grotto where Jesus was born. The pictures are: Me swimming in an oasis in the Negev desert; a picture of the Whaling Wall in Jerusalem and a picture of me at the Israel-Lebanon border.

IN SEARCH OF..............

The purpose of this blog will be to share travels and adventures that I have experienced during my life. At a relatively young age I became very interested in traveling around the world, having adventures and experiencing life. I am not quite sure where this desire came from, since no one in my family had ever traveled, but I spent a large part of my life either having adventures or planning them. This ran the gamut from working in a Kibbutz in Israel, to hitchhiking around Europe, riding my bicycle North of the Artic Circle in Europe,  riding my motorcycle from San Diego to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, or living in a Ashram in India among others.

Traveling was a way for me to find myself, meditate about meaning of life and enjoy youth to the fullest.  This blog will serve as a chronicle of those times.    

I took this picture in West Berlin, Germany before the Wall was torn down. On the West side the Wall was full of graffiti, but when I visited East Berlin, the Wall was painted a bright white with no graffiti and razor wire preventing people from getting close.