It all started with Africa – well, I guess you could argue that it actually started with Baja, but as we go there every year, Africa really was the catalyst for an International travel year. So here I am bit by the travel bug yet again and this time...
Holidays, Family, Friends and Wild Turkey
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home Finally sitting down and taking some time to get caught up on blog posts. As I write this I stare out at a beautiful desert...
Yosemite NP – Awesome day & night
John Muir wrote of Yosemite that it was “by far the grandest of all the special temples of Nature I was ever permitted to enter…the sanctum sanctorum of the Sierra.” Muir had it right, Yosemite is truly an awe inspiring place and one that is within easy driving time...
Back to Baja – Loreto in November
I have written about this beautiful part of Baja before. Every spring Jerry and I take groups down to Loreto to see the whales and enjoy the beautiful scenery, awesome wildlife and wonderful people in this part of Mexico. It was time to head down to Baja at a...
WHITEWATER! – A Rogue Adventure
“It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and...
Ecuador – O.O’O” Latitude
What a change a few months make – it wasn’t that long ago (only three months) that I was in Barrow Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, nearly at the top of the world. Now I find myself exploring Ecuador, a country located on the equator – the mid-point of...
Eccentric Specialization & The Galápagos Islands
Whether observing a marine iguana being washed by ocean waves or facing a serene wizened Galápagos Tortoise– any visitor to the Galápagos Islands can not help but ponder, “how did such creatures come into existence?” And they would not be the first. More than any other place on Earth, the...
Galápagos Islands – An Incomparable Place
Located 600 nautical miles off the coast of Ecuador the Galápagos Islands are a world apart from any other place on Earth. The flight from Quito is unremarkable but as soon as the plane lands on the Islands you know that you are in a different world. “The Galapagos...
Inkan Community, Spirituality & History – More about Peru
The Quechua language — spoken by the Incas is the second most common language in Peru today. Quechua was not a written language in Inca times and therefore there seems to be quite a bit of conjecture about some of the history associated with the Inkan people. There is...
Machu Picchu & Inkan Archeological Sites- Preserving an Ancient Civilization
“Machu Picchu revealed itself in front of me, like the reason’s existence, above delirium and it’s inhabitants’ absence and that of its creators. The mystery of its origin and silent tenaciousness, unwound for me the lesson of order the human being can establish through the centuries, with his or...