The Makings of a Ten-Year Journey
Traveling in the 1980s
Money Makes the World Go Round
Hash House Harriers
Inside the Saddlebags
Dangers Ahead!
Long and Strenuous
Chasing Headhunters in the South Pacific
The Great Wall of China
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The majority of the travel photography featured in this gallery is from a lengthy 1980s ten-year, 150,000-mile mountain bicycle journey throughout Southeast Asia, China, numerous Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and both South and Central America, before ending in Costa Rica, where it all began a decade earlier.
Whether sleeping in the open air or in popularly priced hotels, traveling by bicycle proved an excellent way to see the world. "Next" towns were frequently hundred-mile rides or more with much to witness along the way. Every day, every ride, and every new country was an adventure not to be forgotten.
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After retiring from bicycle travel, that was not the end of Earthly Photo's travels. The introduction of the digital camera at the turn of the century inspired a continual journeying the backroads of the United States exploring its National Parks and locating the 800 historic covered bridges still standing in rural America. The opening of communist Cuba sparked curiosity and a visit to that extraordinary, but tragic country, all the while, the search for vintage fire trucks still goes on.
Based in Costa Rica four decades later, a golf club in my hands is more common than my camera, but those yearly photo vacations never grow old.
Based in Costa Rica four decades later, a golf club in my hands is more common than my camera, but those yearly photo vacations never grow old.
Photo on the left: Near the chilly base of Aconcagua, the tallest mountain outside of the Himalayas. (1994)
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*China's Great Wall End to End
“China’s Great Wall End to End” is the survival story of an extreme 1980s, 11-month journey, backpacking across China on top of the Great Wall. From triumphs and jubilation to misery and misfortune, this unusual photo-journal documents this “Seventh Wonder of the World” like never before. An intriguing 20th-century photo expedition solo by Millard Farmer.