He has traveled extensivily in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India examining various regional rural development schemes. In 1996 he taught International Trade, Market Management and English in Shijiazhuang, China and received a state professional development grant to attend an environmental conference in Nanijing, China the following year. This travel experience is bought directly into the regional Asian courses taught in the department and has resulted in a number of presentations at national and regional conferences. Travel in Australia, New Zealand, Central America and the Caribbean, Germany, Luxemboug, and the United Kingdom has been incorporated into his world regional geography classes. He has coauthored a textbook, World Regional Geography, with Dr. John Benhart for use in these classes.
Travel photography is used extensively for instructional enhancement.