Peripatetic traveler, Rob 'Tor' Torkildson, is a lifelong seeker and explorer who has worked and lived around the world for the last 30 years. Torkildson has tramped through the Amazon, over the Himalaya, and across the Sahara in his quest to experience sacred landscapes in over 120 countries. He has worked as a diver, commercial fisherman, ship navigator, customs and immigration expert, writer and publisher, a fixer in Africa, and as a vintner and owner of The Wild Hare Winery in San't Alfio, Sicily. Torkildson has published three travel memoirs, a novella, and in such magazines as the Kyoto Journal, Beat Scene, Ripcord Adventure Journal, Canadian Mountain Journal, and has won a Solas Award-Gold Medal from Travelers' Tales. Torkildson has degrees in Asian History and Psychology. He is a international fellow of the Explorers Club. Caroline 'Siffy' Torkildson is a geographer, cartographer, life-long star gazer, author, and book designer for Sacred World Explorations. She has worked at two science museums, an international mapping firm, as a researcher for the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and taught an introduction to the history of women explorers at Southern Oregon College, as well as astronomy at the Eisenhower Observatory in Minnesota. She has published a travel guide book, as well as a travel-memoir and is working on a book that follows in the footsteps of the adventurer, Annie Smith Peck. She has published in Ripcord Adventure Journal and has won a Travelers' Tales Solas Award. Torkildson has B.A. and M.A. degrees in geography from Humboldt State University in California, as well as a M.S. in geographic information science from St. Mary's University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, as well as the International Dark Sky Association. In her search for sacred landscapes and dark skies, Siffy has explored the Himalaya, Sahara, Europe, Alaska, Patagonia, and lived in Madagascar where she served in the Peace Corps.