This is my favorite part of the day in Moldova: when the cows come home. It always happens right around sunset when the cows start walking up the hill and you hear mooooooooooooooooo! for about 30 minutes. They all know where their respective homes...
A Fijian family lives below me. They have two young sons, and there is another boy the age of their sons that lives next door. When I am outside doing laundry or reading in my hammock they'll come bug me, its kind of silly because they speak little...
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress
I took the time to welcome all the guests who made it to the opening ceremony of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta in my village of Adeta, Togo, including the smallest ones. The ceremony dedicated the new center to the village of Adeta and was...
Water in Cambodia is not a sparse commodity, at least during the rainy season. My host family used the pool of water in their back yard to clean clothes and dishes, as well as jump into when they were hot after playing volleyball. Rain in Cambodia...
Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation
This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
My dad came to visit me for two weeks in August 2011. While spending an evening at the bar mingling with the local men, one of them asked him if he'd like to go fishing with him in the morning, even though they didn't speak the same language. The...
The people of Issan (Northeast Thailand) are very resourceful, especially when it comes to eating.
This is a boiling ox placenta. It so happens that the calf was named "Farang" (which means foreigner) in my honor. I was the first one to be...
I took this photo shortly after arriving at my site in Fiadanana, Madagascar in May of 2008. This picture shows three of my neighbors (Andrea, her mother Helen and her sister in law Elva) crossing a river to get to their rice field. This day was...
Taken in October 2010 in Chivarreto, Totonicapan, Guatemala. My in-laws and brother in-law came to visit our village and see what life for the majority is like here in Guatemala. Our neighbor kids were so welcoming and loved spending time with...
Sina, Dan, Faiva, Donna, Vave and Olepa waiting outside the government building as Dan & Donna headed out to assignment after training in Nukulaelae, Tuvalu. October 1982
In August 2011, my dad came to visit Moldova. Like me, he likes to travel... but being my father, he also likes to see where I'm living (because, you know, he has to give his approval. He's cool like that). Anyways, he came to visit for two weeks....
This picture is of me and village children (mostly primary school students) in Ataa, Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. Ataa is in north / east Malaita and is accessible only by canoe. I took this picture during a holiday during a Nov 1993 visit ...
Host community friends; Traditional dress; Children
While backpacking around the village of Illela, where I lived, I met a Tuareg extended family living in the wadi. We became good friends, and I frequently spent my Sunday's with them, playing with the children, telling stories, and drinking camel's...
This is the tribal dancer for the Batak tribe in the interior of Palawan. On my weekend visit there, he invited me to come and meet his family in their home before I hiked back to civilization. Even though we did not speak each other's language,...