“Live and learn” is a redundancy. Live is Learn.
I write about journeys, outdoor life, unique shelters, building ideas, and reflections from a life in progress.
This is my personal homepage. It is where I keep notes from the road, field, workshop, screen, and books. Some notes are practical. Others are personal. Together, they help me understand how I move, build, think, and live.
I am interested in routes, trains, hiking trails, domes, cabins, geometry, useful systems, and the quiet lessons found along the way.
This site is not only a blog. It is a record of what I am learning while building a different way to live.
Start Here
If you are new here, begin with the main paths below.
Journeys: Travel notes from Kenya, East Africa, and beyond. I write about train rides, road trips, routes, costs, and what movement reveals.
Outdoors: Hiking, camping, trails, mountains, forests, and time in the field. This is where I document the physical side of experience.
Unique Shelters: Domes, cabins, glamping, campsites, nomadic architecture, and alternative living spaces. I am interested in how shelter shapes life.
Build Notes: Geometry, tools, materials, websites, systems, and experiments. These are notes on how ideas become useful things.
Reflections: Books, poems, music, history, personal essays, and observations. This is where I keep the quieter parts of the journey.
My Projects
These are the main projects connected to my work.
A travel blog and resource for backpacking, routes, costs, and adventure travel in Kenya and Africa.
A Book of Trains, Steam Locomotives, Railways, and Rolling Stock in Africa. Exploring Africa through the Window Seat.
My digital work around websites, SEO, content systems, and helping businesses become easier to find and trust.
Recent Notes
These are some places to start reading.
- Triangles, Icosahedron, and the 5 Regular Solids
- The Architecture of Nomads: Yurts, Black Tents, and More
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- The 5 Platonic Solids or Regular Solids
- Tools and Resources that will make your life easier
- My all-time favorite movies & video clips
- Favorite Books and 2022 Reading List
- How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)
- Art of Doing – Show, Do Not Tell: The Man in The Arena
- Do the Little Things. It’s all That Matters!
- Keep a record of your time by Fritz Scholder
- The lesson of the moth By Don Marquis
- Ithaca Poem by C.P Cavafy
- OURCHESTRA – A Poem By Shel Silverstein
- IF – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
- The 5 Platonic Solids or Regular Solids
The Thread
The things I write about may look different at first.
Travel. Hiking. Shelters. Geometry. Books. Websites. Poems.
But they all come from the same place.
I want to understand how to live with more attention, skill, freedom, and ownership.
Systems over guesswork. Ownership over dependency. Building over consuming.