So this is my second blog. The first one was called Beyond the Wire: Notes of a Former Guardsman. I started the first one with the intent of regularly reporting on foreign policy and domestic issues of particular interest to me, both as a veteran and as a regular citizen. With all of my schoolwork and other assorted time-devouring activities (like surfing the net and playing with my new camera), I just couldn't keep up with my own demands.
I'm starting this second blog with a different objectives in mind: fun, exploration, beauty. I'll post quite a few photos and hopefully figure out how to embed photo slideshows. I'll also use it as a journal during my time in Cairo, and hopefully in perpetuity.
These blogs are such exciting resources for travelers these days, it's really quite remarkable how much distribution we have at our fingertips. We are only limited by our own energies. This time I'm keeping it simple, setting goals I can live up to, writing less and photographing more, at least for now. A picture is worth a thousand words anyway, right?
- ELLIOTT D. WOODS
- Gaza City, Palestine
- Elliott Woods is an independent writer and photographer currently working for a humanitarian organization in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Before traveling abroad, Elliott spent the better part of his life within three hours of Washington, DC. While he hopes he never lives in a sub-development again, Elliott knows full well that he is a product of the American suburbs. He holds no grudge —on the contrary, he knows that he was lucky to grow up with access to state-of-the-art elementary schools, bike paths, small clumps of trees that seemed like forests, and drainage ponds that were teeming with sunfish. Elliott's writing and photos have been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Washington Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, GlobalPost, the Daily News Egypt, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting's Untold Stories blog. Visions Périphériques is a personal blog about his travels and half-cocked ideas.
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