I was wrapping up my freelance gigs in Los Angeles so I decided it was time to escape that place and move back to the Bay Area. I had been working a ton and saved money so I decided while I was between cities and jobs I would travel. My friend Sherril, aka Shinx, was able to take 2-3 months off so we planned to go together for 3 weeks to Tahiti and Fiji, then spend a month in New Zealand, then a month in Australia, and finally a week in Bali. After that Shinx needed to be back and I was to going to play it by ear--either meet someone in Bali to travel with or go on my own. It turned out that Shinx's job was going to delay her trip so I unfortunately was going to have to spend the first two weeks in Tahiti and Fiji by myself.

So I packed up my earthly belongings and kicked off my trip at Burning Man. As luck would have it I fell in love at first sight there on the afternoon of the Burn. Anton, a seasoned traveller, decided to go with me to Fiji for three weeks. It worked out beautifully there between us, so when he returned to San Francisco, he was resolved to try to come back out two months later and meet up with me again in Bali, just as Shinx was leaving.

And so Anton and I spent the next 6 months travelling together, and it was lovely. As well as being an incredible person and companion, he is an excellent photographer. All the pictures you see here are his, with the exceptions of the few I took of him and the ones from Australia and New Zealand, which were mostly taken by Shinx.

So, Anton packed up his life and got a one-way ticket out to Bali just as I was saying good-bye to Shinx. We didn't know where we'd go, or for how long, but that was half the fun of it.