Michele Ann Jenkins
BootsnAll Photojournalist
Once upon a time Michele was going to be a journalist, but then someone waved a fancy looking computer job in front of her face and she wound up writing code in San Francisco for three years.
In the summer of 2000 she resigned herself to the fact that Y2K didn't happen and she was going to have to go out and find her own adventures. Her dad suggested Paris. She signed up to teach English in Nepal for three months and a few weeks later found herself trying to explain Windows NT to a room full of rural Newari Villagers in the Kathmandu Valley.
That trip (which also included trekking, rafting, busing, and train riding from the almost-Nepal-Tibet border to the almost-Indian-Pakistan one) sealed her fate as one terminally infected with the Travel Bug. Realizing two weeks of vacation a year was just not going to cut it, Michele uprooted and replanted in Geneva, Switzerland where she occasionally pretends to work for the World Health Organization.
Since then she's been to 15 countries in Europe, Asia, and (as of April 2002!) Africa. In the spring of 2001, while on a plane flight from Geneva to Kuala Lumpur, Michele realized she'd just technically been all the way around the world - it made her kinda tingly. From Dec 2001 - Feb 2002 she did it again after deciding the best way to get from San Francisco back to Geneva had to be via a boat ride up the Mekong in Laos.
She has a little bit of a travel site at www.majink.org/trav and about 100,000 words of typed up journal entries on getting digitally dusty on her laptop computer. Michele spends most of her free time sighing over travel books and pricing round-the-world plane tickets.
Feel free to email me at majy@majink.org.
