I think ever since the little scooter in New Orleans I’ve had a fascination with taking some cross-country pan american road trip on a...

Yesterday we experienced Colombia’s iconic jungle, complete with cave creatures. Today we experienced Colombia’s iconic history, complete...

Colombia has treasures to rival the Seven Wonders of the World.  Yep, unbeknownst to the rest of the globe, Colombia is home to two kinds...

What follows is a detailed list of what I’ve brought in my two bags. The attempt is to cover all seasons and still have room for my...

Taking a year off to travel is riddled by a long list of logistic hurdles. Outside of say having a career upon return, or where to go, is...

I found a terrible place that no one should ever go to. On the Colombian Caribbean coast just east of Tayrona national park is this awful...

This is my first real video using the contour camera. Most of this was filmed near the top of Mt. Lemmon in Tucson Arizona. The bike is...

A few years ago I was riding in a taxi through Bamako the capital of Mali. Inside the cab a CD was playing that was some other worldly...

I think about the month I backpacked Thailand in 2009 often. We were three friends at the end of med school, all with two months off,...

Stopped by this roadside stand the other day. Definitely the best (and freshest) grilled chicken I’ve ever had. #africa #chicken

It’s common language now to say that we have one of the best health care systems in the world, but some of the worst access to care. In...

The most terrifying thing possible for a young physician is to be alone in the middle of Africa with an overweight, hypertensive,...

The day, or I should say night in a mid November of 2011 started like any other night in the plywood palace that was our clinic in...

One of the ultimate hypocrisies I’ve noticed in the military is the obsession with preaching safety when at home. Driving 15mph on base,...

The first time I heard the loud speaker shout out “INCOMING INCOMING” I nearly fell off the couch in the clinic where at least I thought...

So after five months in Afghanistan I have a couple stories to tell. I should mention that since some of the people I work with have...

Al Udeid air base is a small military staging area in Qatar right in the middle of the Persian gulf. For the most part it functions as...

Leaving for a conventional military deployment has come a long ways since the days of GIs stepping out to a rusty old plane hell bound to...

I’m currently deployed with a small special ops unit somewhere in the middle of nowhere third world. The location is basically classified...

Placing a blood pressure cuff on a patient is typically a simple task.  This time was an exception. I felt for the cuff in my bag, pulled...