Women carrying 20L jerry cans from the bore-hole back to their homes. “A pint’s a pound the world around!” meaning these women are carrying around 42 pounds of water each for a half-mile or more.

Gabra women in northern Kenya spend up to five hours a day carrying heavy jerry cans filled with murky water. A lingering drought has pushed this already arid region to a water crisis. (Lynn Johnson, © National Geographic)

Carrying cans in Java.

Nov. 22, 2011. Afghan boys jump down from old vehicles in Kabul. Taken by the Washington Post.

Russian newsboy. Russian newspaper delivery man posed, standing, full-length, with bundle of newspapers. Soviet Union. 1900-1918. Photo by Bain News Service

Newspaper Delivery Boy. Date & location unknown

Newspaper delivery boys sharing a brief conversation at a traffic signal on s.v.road in Mumbai. Also check out the rest of Diti’s wonderful pictures.

I’m heading up to the mountains this weekend, which got me thinking about backpacking again. I love how the ‘bag’ becomes apart of you, and together you create a self sufficient unit.  I’m always amazed how quickly I adapt to being able to live without ‘things’. Makes me wonder what I don’t actually need in my everyday life…

Meat Culture is one of the most fascinating topics to me. Whenever I travel, I search out how meat is handled in markets. Can you imagine walking through the Greenmarket in Union Square and seeing this? People would flip. It puts it in perspective about what is “safe” when handing raw meat.