Last month I visited Chad for the second and last time for MAF. I had the opportunity to fly to the northwestern corner of the country, close to the ...
Kenya From the Air
I have a lot to write about, but right now can only manage a few pictures of the scenery on a MAF flight from South Sudan to Kenya, passing over Lake ...
A ‘Barn-Raising’ – Congo Style
Black, thick, foot-deep mud is so much fun to sink into when you’re barefoot, and it’s supposed to be there…inside a house…in every room. This is ...
Enjoying the Fireworks
It’s easier than you might think to become indifferent or lose that first-time magical wonder about the world when you see wondrous things almost ...
One Flight at a Time
Video by Rich Thompson, MAF Australia On the morning of 24 April, Bishnu Gurung and his friend walked along a narrow trail cut into a steep ...
Welcome Home, Chuol
Everyone has a story to tell, but it’s easy to forget, even for someone whose job it is to find and tell those stories. Often it becomes a blur of ...
Chad
I just returned from Chad, a country I knew very little about before I went. If you do have any knowledge of the place, it will most likely ...
In the Land of 800 Airstrips
Bangladesh is a country filled with endless airstrips…if you’re a floatplane. There’s no better bush plane you could have. With over 800 ...
Waterworld
If you asked for one word to describe Bangladesh, it would have to be “water.” It’s everywhere, more than any place I’ve ever seen, and not exactly ...
10 of My Favorite Things
There are so many cool things I've seen in the last four months. I thought I'd pick 10 of my favorites from Madagascar and South Sudan since ...