El Yunque
I had no idea that El Yunque, located in northeastern Puerto Rico, is the only tropical rain forest in the...
My Walkabout
Wisconsin
Bon Iver recorded their 2007 album while in a cabin for three straight months in northwestern Wisconsin. For Emma, Forever ago plays...
National pastime
One can't help but feel joy under Friday Night Lights. Fresh cut grass, chalk lines in the dirt, beer and...
Soup.Sunday.Football.
The morning begins with the frying of bacon, the smell fills the house as the television is turned on. I'm...
the Pike’s Peak Cog Railway
June 30th, 1891, was the day that the first Cog railway train made it to the summit of Colorado's Pike...
the Bio-Bay in Fajardo
Bio luminescent bays? I had no idea what it was either, but what the hell, I was in Puerto Rico...
Isla Verde
I've dreamt of the Caribbean since I was a wee child.Crystal clear blue waters and sugary sand to sink my...
Pride Rock
The great plains of Africa spread out as wide as the seemingly endless ocean. To my right I have acacia...
Old World Monkeys
A family together around a tree, the elders up top to survey their surroundings, the younger on lower branches playing,...
feeling almighty at the Kenya/Tanzania border
Out in the Maasai Mara, hours from our camp and civilization of any kind, there sits a formidable stone. It...
Sarova Mara
The "Jurassic Park" gates slowly creak open as one patiently waits in your safari vehicle. The sounds of Africa's Big...
The Albino Kenyan
As we are driving to Safari, a conversation gets started about the Albino population in East Africa. It is estimated...