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“We haul it all” could be a Chinook unit’s motto. And nobody ever forgets a ride in one of the US Army's lift-anything-go-anywhere helicopters. After  more than 18 years of U.S.-backed efforts to stabilize the country, American diplomats and other supporting personnel still rely on privately-operated helicopters just to safely get around Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.

Documenting these travels with pictures has the added advantage of it being true, and therefore you have to tolerate contradictions and see things from different perspectives. "You worked on a cruise ship and now you are working in a war zone,huh?" Yep, from cruise ship to cruise missiles. Same thing , "At your service. Yes Maam, Yes Sir"...I am STILL in The Hospitality Industry. Both are 24 hour work environments. The customer this contract is the US Army. I'm here because my LEFT brain got good at telling my RIGHT brain what to do! It is very important that  expedition history not be distilled to just those great man and woman like Magellan,  Edmund Hillary, Lewis  and Clark et al., but to the regular folk  who  go out to do their own exploring and circumnavigation of the Earth and then blog about it-literature in a hurry. No matter where I go there I am. I can still look up at the same moon, stars albeit different hemisphere. It innately belongs to...

Ed Reif - Travel Chronicles Ed Reif Travel Chronicles Where Every Journey Becomes a Story Worth Telling Risk Intelligence & Mindful Travel I have a status meeting with myself every Friday. Today's topic is risk intelligence. Risk appetite governs how much risk you want to take, while risk intelligence involves being aware how much you are actually taking. When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? — John Maynard Keynes I tolerate ambiguity. I play poker and deal with partial information developing a high level of risk intelligence. But this is not poker, this is war. It is the ability to estimate probabili...

H2OMG "To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to." Garth Stein Another 2 days and dazed by the power and majesty of the hydropower of the great Zambezi Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage site, Victoria Falls, an Uber waterfall on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. Looking out  at The Zambezi Riverfrom TheRoyal Livingstone Hotel-towards The Smoke That Thunders-Victoria Falls Also known locally as “Mosi-oa-Tunya” – or the “The Smoke that Thunders” – this isn’t the highest or even the widest waterfall in the world. It is, nevertheless, the largest, based on its width of 5,604 ft and height of 354 ft, making it the world’s largest sheet of falling water. This is beautiful but oh s...

Being There: From Afghanistan War Zone to Myanmar's Digital Silence Being There From Afghanistan War Zone to Myanmar's Digital Silence A Watershed Experience: Live Missions, Cultural Contrasts, and the Power of American English "I won the lottery" because as Bruce Springsteen says, "I was born in the USA" The Journey Timeline Afghanistan Active War Zone Running live missions in Eastern Afghanistan Forward Operating Base. A watershed experience where language literally meant life or death. Blue-Chip Contracts ...