I stood staring at the wide expanse of Omaha Beach squinting my eyes, trying to imagine what that historic day was like. D Day seems so far away now – ancient. My mind was swimming in thoughts ...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/remembering-the-normandy-invasion/
I looked around the table and wondered – how did this happen? How is it that at 43 I’m the youngest one on this hiking trip AND I’ve got the dullest stories? For the first time in my travel...
I looked out the window of my Turkish bus, and my stomach seized up in knots. My eyes focused in on the field of yellow sunflowers, and I was immediately reminded of how I spent my last summer �...
It’s Thanksgiving – time for overeating and reflection. As I look back on my last five years of travel there are many things to be thankful for – but there is one thing that I feel an ove...
I pulled up outside of the airport and saw the flashing lights glaring, almost glowing, in the dark rainy night. I slowed down and pulled over hearing the gravel crunch under my tires. I flashed ...
Before I departed on the Mongol Rally, when I told people about what I was doing this summer they were surprised, but consistently it was one topic about the epic road trip that fascinated people...
Passion is a weird thing, it can take over your life, and it can make you do things you otherwise would never do. Passion is powerful. Passion is crazy. Passion is a drug. Passion is blinding....
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/this-is-what-people-with-passion-do/
I live my life very deliberately – and I have very few regrets. In fact, my regrets are the usual…I wish I would have kept up my violin skills, I wish I would have learned how to ski at a you...
It took one simple question 10 years ago to change my life… “Do you want to come with me?” My co-worker and friend asked me that simple question referring to visiting his home country of Tu...
2010-5-12 This week is a special week – I’m devoting my posts this week to Kathmandu. However I don’t feel like being as ‘wordy’ as I normally am – instead I want the photographs to...