As a photographer, journalist and race organizer I’ve visited and photographed in more than 30 countries in the last 25 years. Some personal highlights as a journalist and photographer include crewing on a replica of the tall ship Endeavor through the Panama Canal and Galapagos Islands, participating in a Kava ceremony with village elders on the Fijian island of Waya and spending days photographing Sea Gypsies on the islands off Borneo. My most challenging assignment to date was rappe