2-3 years old, Cannes

with my honey of a friend, aware of her following me without stopping and liking it.

Lois in her twenties

Before giving birth to three brats!

3-4 years old, Beirut, with Lois

3 years old, in the Alps

14 years old, Andalusia

19 years old

with Mike Carr at home in Andalucia

24 years old, Colombo

days after Skipper's death, shot by Steve Correl after waking up in Colombo, Sri Lanka

24 years old, Seanie & Steve & Baby in Sri Lanka

24 years old, Terai

Near Buddha's birthplace in the huge flat savannah in southern Nepal. Exhausted from 100+ degrees for several days, drinking cokes by the dozens.

in the Himalayas

Getting ready for Hindu holidays. Knee already hurting on the 2nd day of walking! Four arduous days to go.

in the Himalayas

Resting at Hinko Cave, exhausted and hurting. Little did I know, I'd be back here 16 years later.

Annapurna Sanctuary Trail

Blue went back with a group of friends to this spot in November 2000, and the entire glacier was gone.

Annapurna Base Camp

Hanging off the edge over the moraine to the Modi Kohla river below. That's a 100-story drop!

Nepal-India border

The day Ghandi is assassinated, utter bedlam at the border, but Blue talks his way into India.

Bombay by boat to Goa

Enjoying the local smoke with Baba.

24 years old, Ghuli, Maldives

Paradise. Military boat had to come get us off the forbidden island which we shared with four other gringos. Best food, best storms, best diving, best sleeping, best feeling I've had in my life. And the best toilet too.

25 years old, Virginia

Shot by my cousin Travis Morrison outside the family house.

26 years old, Galapagos

26 years old, Atacama Desert, Peru

26 years old, Costa Rica

27 years old, Danish-Dutch border

27 years old, Dutch paddy wagon

28 years old, Nairobi

With Mr. Ali, a fab friend, about whom I have written elsewhere.

28 years old, Serengeti

This is how you get a shower, in a sudden rainfall.

28 years old, Maasai Mara

Wide-lipped rhinoceros walks into camp.

28 years old, Kampala

Idi Amin and Milton Obote left the place in ruins, tens of thousands of shillings to the dollar.

28 years old, Serengeti

Widely published picture in U.S. newspapers, accompanying Blue's story of how to go on Safari in Africa by doing it yourself.

28 years old, Rwanda

On the way to the gorillas, with Christine and Thomas Chable. Thomas shot one roll of film in six months in Africa!

28 years old, Tanzania

30 years old, Seychelles

On a government tour as a travel writer. Shot by Stephen Correl,

30 years old, Istanbul

31 years old

With ballerina Julia Korting in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.

31 years old, Chiapas

With Betapunker Mike Cormier, en route to interviews with Zapatistas.

31 years old, Caye Caulker

At Ignacio's Cabins, a regular stop on Blue's journeys, with Mike Cormier.

32 years old, Siankan, Yucatan

32 years old, Blagden Alley, DC

In Giorgio Furioso's infamous warehouse, taken over by the Betapunks for two years of riotous creativity.

32 years old, in Colon

Betapunks warehouse at Blagden Alley.

32 years old, shooting movies

In a scene from Colon.

33 years old, Johns Hopkins cancer ward

33 years old, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

With mother and sister, post-op. Shot by Steve Correl.

36 years old, Black Hole Buddha

In the DC armory onstage in the one and only show of the Black Hole Buddha.

36 years old, backstage

Caught by Kristina Berger at the Black Hole Buddha show.

38 years old, Pink Piglets

With Deborah Ash and Eddie Becker, filming Zealots from Hell.

39 years old, Fish River Canyon, South Africa

With Ron Avey and Mike Cormier, chilling.

40 years old, Andalusia

Shot by Cara Ballman.

40 years old, Salzburg

Shooting the Dismemberment Plan, opening for Pearl Jam in Salzburg, Prague, and Verona.

40 years old, Himalayas

With Eddie Becker, on the way to the Annapurna Base Camp. Shot by Sandra Bishop.

40 years old, Hinko Cave, Himalayas

With guide Jhap, 16 years after spending the night here with Steve Correl. Shot by Sandra Bishop.

40 years old, Glacier in Annapurna

Melted away, compared to 1984.

Y2K, Paris

Y2K, Granada

Y2K, Biarritz

2002, Cuernavaca

2002, Beirut

2004, Languedoc

2004, Uganda

2004 Bruges, Belgium

Punched by Kyla Cole in a scene from "Assassin 62." Shot by Tanker Gogh.

2004 Paris

With Kyla Cole in mirrors. Shot on location of the movie Assassin 62. Photo by Tanker Gogh.

2005, Iceland, with pin-up model Kyla Cole

On the set of "Assassin 62" in Djupavik. Shot by Sandy Bishop.

2008 Portland

2008 • Portland

In between shooting flowers, he realizes his face is changing, a statue leaning away from youth, towards a cracked exaggeration of who he once was and will now never be again.

2010 • Asleep onstage at the Wonderbox

Shot by Maya Nelson Wolfsdottir, Blue is shown here crashed onstage at the Wonderbox. Coolest room in the studio, and lots of space to move around. Note the art-deco lampshade on stage right, a gift from Daniel Donnelly design studio.

2010 at the Wonderbox

Same bed, different angle

The mother, idealized

Was she in her 20s or 30s when this picture was taken? She was a secretary in Buenos Aires or Panama when it was taken.

Out of the Internment Camps

Skipper interviewed by NBC when he arrived in Brazil after being released from a POW camp in Shanghai. He would head straight back to the Orient.