Tammy and Dan welcome Travis Rogers to the Team. We’ll let him introduce himself in his own words, but we look forward to a rich collaboration before the next departure date in 2013! Welcome aboard Travis!
I have foremost the love for novels that look like they were underappreciated in some nook of the library, and for that of living life simply: Facing things you wish to face, even if that means you must sacrifice certain comforts to achieve such. I like keeping active, pushing boundaries of knowledge, and effectively hate ignorance when it blocks people from connecting and understanding each other. Leonard Clark’s novels connected with me, as it was written to follow in a narrative not only of thought or dialogue, but also one to follow in the footsteps of an entirely visceral three dimensional world: So you could with such descriptive language feel every bug bite, taste every rain droplet, and hear every growl coming from unseen creatures in the dark.
That world is out there, for all aspects of inspiration and love for the unknown I saw after reading Clark’s ‘The Rivers Ran East’, I seek to find it. My most intensive trek thus far has been several multiple day hikes in the Sierra Mountains of California; as well as one in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a kayaking journey along the shores of one massive lake and inlets near Canada. But given two decades of reading everything from the tribal lifestyle of native Sumatra, to the nomadic peoples of the high plateaus of the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan, I feel ready to face the work needed to make this trip possible and fruitful beyond our wildest imaginations when we finally get there. I am honored to be associated with both Dan and Tammy, and hope to make a positive contribution to the team as it grows, as well as through the meaningful and difficult work of all of us do justice to the historical significance of this journey; and to a great and largely unheralded explorer and author in Leonard Clark. – Travis Rogers, Feb, 2012
Equally at home in Peru, the mountains, or Seattle, Washington, Tammy Leland has spent the last 18 years exploring every nook and cranny of Peru’s Amazon, its Andes mountains, Southern desert and ancient history. Earning a reputation as a passionate adventurer and explorer, Tammy had wandered over 5 continents, spending her time learning from different indigenous cultures, gleaning important lessons about sustainable tourism and now offers practical guidance as a tourism consultant and environmental educator.
Living on the edge explorer, traveler and climber, Dan Travers has traversed, climbed, scaled, scrambled, skied, trudged, trekked, hiked, biked and kayaked in 6 different continents and over 40 countries. Wilderness First Responder trained and a jungle veteran, lacrosse player, beer drinker, trekker and traveler, diver and climber, but not dancer nor singer. "I want to experience all I can, because if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space."