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. "You worked on a cruise ship and you worked in a war zone,huh?" Yep, from cruise ship to cruise missiles. Same thing , "At your service. Yes Maam, Yes Sir". Both are- The Hospitality Industry. Both are 24- hour work environments. 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. 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 all of us, children of this planet. I'm stricken by, what poet Diane Ackerman calls " the ricochet wonde...