Laugh, Live, & Love

Here I am with some great friends and my dog Bailey, doing what I love to do most. Living life to the fullest. Here we are on the top of the Chief, in Squamish, B.C. Canada. Breath taking views. My girlfriend and I will be leaving to meet up with our friends here Tam, and Damien, in Mazatlan, Mexico, to start our 2-3 months travelling in South America. These two are running a 26 mile marathon there. We are so proud of them.

Living out of a Backpack

Here I am with my amazing girlfriend Larisa, backpacking and camping on the shores of one of B.C.'s glacier lakes. This is
everything that we will be travelling with on our trip. Getting out of the big cities into nature, living out of a backpack is what really makes me learn about myself and completly relax. We all need to make time for special experiences like this.

Todd

Our Journey into South America

My girlfriend and I are about to takeoff on an exciting new journey together, possibly a test for us to determine what the future may have in store. This is a new chapter in our lives, an adventure ride together through some of the most remote parts South America. Our 1st stop, Machu Picchu, a trek to the Inca ruins of an ancient civilzation, 11,000 ft. up in the mountainous rainforest of Peru.

Todd

Solo in Southeast Asia

A solo mission backpacking though some of the most culturally envigerating environments in Asia. India, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia, countries so closely tied, but yet so vastly different. A life changing experience that gave me a completly different perspective of what life is all about.

Camel Safari, Rajastan, India

Our four day trek on Camels across the desert for 4 days. 8 hours a day on camelback in temperatures up to 45 degrees makes you appreciate your airconditioned car, with leather seats, and a head rest back at home.
This is an experience that we should all have to endure once in our life to really put our life in perspective.

A trip that takes the gypsies 15 days on camel- cart takes 15 hours in a bus.

Indian Culture

Indian Women collecting firewood for their village in the desert of India Many of these women will walk 5-10 km to find wood, and they all carry it on there heads back to the village.

Traditional Clothing and Jewels

All Indian women wear beautiful long draping gowns and many jewels, and diamonds. Here are two young gypsy girls I spent a week with to learn about thier culture. These 18-20 year old girls travel around on a camel cart from village to village and make henna tattoo's by day and dance in local restaurants by night. They bring in the money for the entire group they travel with. The 4 gypsy girls, and 2 young males who play music, take care of the 5-6 children and the three elders.

In this culture the average life expetancy would be around 40 years old. They live out of the village, in the desert with no shelter except a three foot high grass made fence around an baren area of sand 10-15 ft. in diameter.

Udiapur, India

Udiapur, India is the place where the James Bond movie "Octupussy" was filmed. Here I stayed at a fancy expensive hotel overlooking the beautiful lake where the floating hotel is located. A very expensive hotel here was 1350 Rupies, approx. $50 Can. Dollars. 

Sunset in Johdpur, India

Amazing sunset's throughout India provide you images that are unforgettable.

Ganges River, Varanaci, India

This place was the most spriritual place I have ever encoutered. I found myself crying a few times because of the culture shock.

This is the Ganges river. Here people come from all over the country to bath in this holy water. Beleive me it doesn't smell or look that holy. On the riverside there are 4-5 Ghats, where families burn bodies of their decessed, and then throw the pelvis of the female and the ribs of the male back into the river. Their belief here is in reincarnation, and this is the sacrafice.

Anchor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Anchor Wat are the riuns which date back to 800 AD, a series of sandstone rock temples with a mass larger than the great pyramids.

Cambodia has a such an amazingly intersting history. One movie which gives you some insight on the recent past and involves the Khmer Rouge killing millions is the "The Killing Fields"