My love for travel began as a zookeeper at the Pittsburgh Zoo, when my boss and mentor Joe Bissonnette sent me to Southern Africa for 21 days in 1974! That safari was a life-changing event that instilled in me a passion to protect wildlife and wild places, and to share those wonders with other travelers.  I became curator of animals at the Oglebay Good Zoo in 1975 and started a travel program that took me to South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Kenya.  In 1994, I became the zoo director and sent five curators to Kenya, the Galapagos Islands and Costa Rico as a way to "pay it forward” to our zoo staff.  I retired in 2015, and formed Wander the Earth Expeditions.

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My travels include Mexico, Cuba, Botswana, Kenya, Borneo, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Zanzibar, the Galapagos Islands, Peru, Italy, Iceland and Vietnam. I just returned from my third visit to Morocco in March 2023.

 

Where shall we go next?