Amazing Antarctica: February 2015

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

Postcards from Patagonia: February 2015

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

Saturday, November 7, 2014 Five days worth of a whirlwind of activities allowed us to completely recover from jetlag and see most » 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

We’re not superstitious, but 2013 was not a good year for us, being deeply marked by the deaths of both of Steve’s » Read more

The South of France seems to summon the very essence of summer: blue skies, sidewalk seating at cafes, winding narrow back roads » Read more

Rolling, rolling, our boat, the Horizon, tosses us from side to side as though possessed as it plows its way southwest from » Read more

We had been planning our second trip to Iceland for 3 years, ever since the organizers of the radiology meeting we were » Read more

We found Reykjavik and Iceland to have both some surprising culinary delights, as well as a certain repetitive monotony. This post will » Read more