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I have been a world traveler for most of my life and I have traveled five out of the last ten years to around 40 countries on five continents. I have done extensive travel writing and photography of my travels and am eager to share my material with others. Our latest adventure took my wife and me back-packing around the world for two years.

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• following wildebeest in Masaai Mara Game Reserve
• enjoyed the splendors and clear blue-green waters of the spice islands of Zanzibar
• watching cats in awesome Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
• tracking mountain gorillas in Bwindi, Uganda
• blazing through the haunting deserts of the Namib Desert in Namibia
• touring phenomenal pre-land-reform Zimbabwe & walking with out a guide in wild Mana Pools with your mom
• visiting the world in one country of South Africa & it's big game parks of Kruger & Kgalagadi

• adventuring on a 10 Day Camel Safari in the Thar desert of Rajasthan
• witnessing a Terrorist Attack only meters away in New Delhi
• experiencing Pushkar & The Camel Fair and its 50,000 camels & 2 million people in Rajasthan
• taking Thai cooking classes in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand
• trekking in Laos to remote hill tribes in the Luang Namtha protected area on the Laos/China border
• exploring massive caves in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo at Mulu Gunung National Park
• hiking through rice paddies and quaint villages in Longji & The Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces in Guanxi Province China
• exporing the Great Wall at Simatai outside Bejing, China

• spending 4 months dancing Tango in Buenos AiresTango in Buenos Aires
• traveling by bus and small boat from the tip of South America to Virginia, USA
• exploring Argentina’s Parque Nacional Los Glaciares and the stunning Fitzroy Range in Argentina
• sailing through the fjords of Chile
• town-hopping through the colonial villages of Northern Argentina like Cafayate and Tilcara
• digging in a silver mine in Potosí, Bolivia
• four wheeling across the vast salt flats of Uyuni, Bolivia
• hiking to find anacondas & cobras in the steamy Bolivian Pampas
• mountain biking down the World’s Most Dangerous Road in Bolivia
• hiking down Colca Canyon , Peru one of the world’s deepest
• sailing around the Galapagos Islands
• trekking to Colombia’s lost city, Ciudad Perdida, and visiting a cocaine lab in the bush Ciudad Perdida Stories
• hanging out in steamy Cartagena eating avocadoes and dancing salsa

• sailing on Blue Sky three weeks from Cartagena, Colombia to the San Blas of Panama
• visiting the wild Caribbean park of Tortuguero, Costa Rica
• chillin' on the gorgeous beach of Playa Madera, Nicaragua
• walking in the thick Peten jungle to the sound of howler monkeys to the fabled temples of Tikal
• experiencing Semana Santa (Holy Week) with a local family in Antigua de Guatemala

• driving the The Great Ocean Road in Victoria Australia

I had the great pleasure of going to Vietnam with him for a month in 1999. Dad, Heyward Macdonald, was in VietNam in 1966 and 1967 based at Phu Loi, which was the home firebase of 1st DivArty (1st Infantry Division Artillery). He was an officer commissioned in Artillery, but working Ordinance with the Head and Main of the 610th Combat Support Batallion.

"We kept the arty firing and after 6 months as a Platoon Leader, I was assigned in a Major's slot and did a lot of traveling in western 3rd corps. We didn't go looking for trouble, it just came looking for us from time to time. For the first 6 months we got some incoming fire at least every other night. It was an interesting time."

- Rev. Doc. Heyward H. Macdonald

Heyward's website is
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Lastly, our final passion bordering on obsession is dancing. Tango and salsa dancing are such gratifying hobbies. Including dance with travel is particularly exciting.

Tango in Buenos Aires