I'm a well-traveled NGO volunteer, international election observer and independent traveler who now spends at least two months annually venturing to out of the way locales from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe. I've recently taken up travel sketching as a way to savor the journey in an attempt to see if pictures really do speak a thousand words. I blog about my out of state and out of country travels at www.peregrinewoman.com and about my home turf at www.explorationkitsap.com