In our “rat race” of life, very few undertakings end up being worth the effort. One of them is traveling. It allows you to look at the mundane daily activities and shores you are accustomed to from a completely different prospective. Aldous Huxley pointed out that traveling allows you to discover what is wrong with your country. An exceptional traveler, Mark Twain, believed that “travels are fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. Photography greatly enhances your traveling experience. Many people, including myself, took the camera in their hands for the first time with an intention to share their remarkable encounters with the world. These photographs represent a token of gratitude to the remarkable locations I have been privileged to visit.