The rewards of traveling alone on a global walkabout are the people along the way whose stories deepen our understanding of other cultures and through their telling, ourselves. There’s magic in those minutes or hours when lives intersect and strangers from faraway places share an experience before journeying on. Those interactions kept me company as I schlepped my camera on a solo adventure through 30 countries; the adventure continues at Side Road. I am an Emmy-winning storyteller who anchored and reported at television stations in Austin, Phoenix and Seattle; my travel articles appeared in the Huffington Post. I co-own Side Road Media where I am Head of Production.