These shoes have traversed over it all: dirt, mud, snow, ice, stone, volcanic rocks, grass, pavement, sand, various animal droppings, and more. I’ll be sad to see them retired in 2016.

The best camera is the one you’ve got on you, and the iPhone 5s did the job just fine throughout Thailand and Ireland.

Love this camera. It performs superbly in low light,  and the 24-105mm lens is a great do-it-all travel lens.

The gear that took me to Thailand for 23 days, all inside a 40L pack.

The streets of Bangkok

One of the locals enjoying the ride between Ao Nang and Railay perched on the tip of a longtail boat

Railay Beach. What a beaut

Kayaking around Railay

Ao Nang Sunset

Pretty neat hotel in Ao Nang

Getting up close and person with the elephants at Elephant Nature Park

Jungle trekking in Northern Thailand

Wat Rong Khun

Hanging out in Laos

I didn’t take too many photos in my short stay at Qatar, but here’s a park

On the road in Red Rock Canyon

Red Rock Canyon

Looks like a fine spot for some horseback riding

The Narrows, Zion National Park

Zion National Park, with some neat water droplets courtesy of the weeping rock.

Spruce Knob lake, casually situated on top of a 3,840 elevation mountain – the highest peak in West Virgina

Delicious campfire burritos

Somewhere in the forests of Spruce Knob

Our rad campsite at Spruce Knob

We’re all made of star stuff

The Open Road, Iceland

Kerið, a volcanic crater lake

Seljalandsfoss

Black Sand Beach, Vik

Dyrhólaey

Lil Icelandic sheep

Hanging out on top of the Sólheimasandur Plane Crash. PC: @keera_ana

Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon

Icelandic horses, pure-bred through a thousand years of isolation and an Icelandic law banning the import of horses into the country.

Svartifoss, Skaftafell National Park

Grjótagjá, a lava cave and natural hotspring near Lake Mývatn

Hitting the open road in Þingvellir Park

The Cliffs of Moher

Couldn’t help posting another photo from the Cliffs of Moher. They were breathtaking

A great road for some cycling on Inishmore

Petting some Connemara ponies

Hitch-hiking from Clifden to Galway with nothing but road for miles and my own 2 feet and the kindness of strangers to get me there

A secluded beach nestled among the cliffs near Dun Laoghaire

Garden of the Gods

Untitled. Colorado has over 55 mountains that rise above 14,000 feet. This was taken on the drive up one of those mountains

Somewhere along the way to a 14,000 foot summit

Cadet Chapel, U.S. Air Force Academy

Flatirons

Mile 2 of 22

Traces of Fall in a forest of green

It’s the little things. After hiking for 12 miles, nothing makes me happier than a warm fire and two packets of Ramen

River crossing

Smithsonian Institute

Roosevelt Island

Nature showing off her Fall colors

The sun setting over the Potomac River

So long 2015, I’m looking forward to another great year of travel and photography in 2016. PC: Dan Evans