Wintry Japan: Rausu, Hokkaido and Sea Eagles (Part 5)

Monday, February 5, 2018 Breakfast at the Green Park Hotel in Tsurui was Japanese, with grilled salted salmon, daikon pickles, rice, and » Read more

Wintry Japan: Hokkaido and red-crowned cranes (Part 4)

Our accommodation for this evening was Green Park Hotel in Tsurui. Tsurui means “cranes are here”. Sunday, February 4, 2018 5:45 am: » Read more

Friday, February 2, 2018 This day’s destination is in large part why we signed up for this trip. Who can resist » Read more

Monday, September 11, 2017 After 9 days aboard the Antigua exploring Svalbard, we were back in Longyearbyen, taking leave of our travel » Read more

The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more

Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18, 2017 We had an epic, literally tempestuous, start to our annual Sedona film festival week » Read more

Friday, March 3, 2017 One year ago, on my birthday weekend, we stayed for the first time at the lovely Borrego Springs » Read more

Thursday October 12, 2017 It had been many years since we last dove in Baja, but in many ways, returning there was » Read more

Saturday, August 12, 2017: After a month of intensive preparations, we were finally off to Wyoming! The preceding month was a » Read more

OK, digression is over and I am back in Yuma with the drone. I spent the night at Quality Inn, just across » Read more