Wonderful Wyoming: August 2015 (Part 2: Yellowstone)

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Bears, bison and geysers, oh my! As much as we loved the Tetons, there were geothermal pyrotechnics and » Read more

Wonderful Wyoming: August, 2015 (Part 1: Grand Tetons)

National parks, as crown jewels of a nation’s physical patrimony, are a development of modern times. In exactly one year, on August » Read more

Saturday, July 18, 2015 Getting to our dive destination was a long wearying travel day, in which we crossed from the north » Read more

“I know a shortcut.” I WAS suspicious of this pronouncement, but should have been more. I’d only ridden these trails once before, » Read more

Saturday, April 4, 2015 Vacation or bootcamp? Up in the wee hours, throwing layers of clothes on in the dark, grabbing gear-laden » Read more

Friday, January 30-Sunday, February 1, 2015 What do love and romance have to do with Antarctica? Actually, mating and fidelity could be » Read more

Patagonia. Even the name sounds remote. Iconic images of Torres del Paine by Galen Rowell, a larger than life nature photographer we » Read more

We met up with our naturalist/photoguide Claudio Vidal at our hotel in Punta Arenas in Chile. A road sign nearby said “Fin » Read more

Tuesday, October 14, 2015 The final third of my 2 week trip to Japan included a rarity, a couple of days to » Read more