Home is near Seattle, Washington, USA. Recently retired from professing economics.
My main travel interest is Latin America, primarily Brazil and currently any part of the Amazon. Presently -- June 24-August 20 2008 -- I´m on my third Amazon trip, although this one started in Puerto Ayacucho and includes the Orinoco. Once I´d read Humboldt´s account of his trip through here in 1800 -- when many European geographers doubted there was really a river connecting the Orinoco and Amazon basis -- I had to see it for myself.... full info