This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. Cows are everything in South Sudan. At least if you want to get married they are. Here, as in much of Africa, men pay a dowry to their future wife’s family in livestock, and in S. Sudan...
This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. I love the airport in Aweil, South Sudan. A thatched grass hut, with a giant hanging fish scale to weigh the luggage. Wouldn’t it be great if our airports could be so simple? South Sudan was...
A friend took me out over the weekend to fly in her “powered parachute”. These hilarious little flying crafts are basically go-carts that power a giant fan and sit under a parachute. This morning we were flying through low clouds and the haze of a factory...
On my way back to Austin in January, 2011, I passed this refinery. It was only when I drove up that I noticed the little cemetery that the refinery had been built around. It was a bizarre and somewhat chilling scene.