2022 Highlights
As 2022 unfurled, we adapted to the realities of coronavirus endemicity. This was the year of make up trips (not 1, not » Read more
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Back to Baja: October 2022
Friday, October 7, 2022 No good adventure begins uneventfully, or so it seems. 2022 was a year dominated by pandemic make-up trips, » Read more
Brrrr! Back to British Columbia (September 2022)
Port Hardy is a small fishing village at the northern end of Vancouver Island, a one hour flight in a small plane » Read more
Namibia: June 2022 (Part 3-Sossusvlei and Dune Dreams)
Thursday June 2, 2022 By four days into the first of our 2 weeks in Namibia, this trip had already exceeded my » Read more
Namibia: June 2022 (Part 2-Diamond Dreams)
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 After a terrific launch of our Complete Namibia photographic tour with Martin Bailey in the Quiver Tree Forest » Read more
Chile, March 2022: A chilly reception (Part 1: Chiloé Island)
Saturday, March 19, 2022-Sunday, March 20, 2022 Travel can be stressful, we all know that, but usually the rewards easily outweigh the » Read more
Methow Valley, NYC and Berkshires (June-July 2021)-Part 3, the Berkshires
Our pandemic round robin of cancelling international trips and searching for reasonably safe domestic substitutions continued unabated all through summer 2021. We » Read more
Methow Valley, NYC and Berkshires (June-July 2021)-Part 1, Methow Valley, WA
The long arm of Covid continued to impact our travel plans well into 2021, even as California “reopened” June 15 and some » Read more
Coronavirus calendar: Quarantine dispatches (Month 2: April 2020)
“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more
Pandemic pandemonium: scrambling the best laid travel plans (June 2020)
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 With the Audi Q5 packed as though we were never returning home, we headed northeast towards St. George, » Read more