From the Archives : arriving into Edinburgh for the first time 
From the Archives : Taking a helicopter over the Grand Canyon during a global pandemic 
From the Archives : The year was 2019 & I was preparing for my long distance hike along Hadrian’s Wall in England by getting outside in August in Sedona, Arizona 
From the Archives : trying a lower cost alternative with HipCamp 
Last week at the movies vol. 4 
Old Crow Medicine Show
Country music is hard to define, so let's not even try. Labels are for people who are not comfortable letting...
passing the hours at Lady Bird lake
After my first night in Austin, Texas, I pulled back the curtains to gray skies and big raindrops cascading down...
Portland ( East Coast)
The puffiest of clouds race over the mountaintops as I speed by, molding and forming bizarre shapes before being...
into the Underworld
In the 1960's, a Texas farmer found a massive sinkhole on his property. He called the authorities, who in turned...
Soundgarden
I'm sure that I am repeating myself, but the Seattle grunge scene impacted me musically, shaping the way I felt...
Magnetic Zeros
Spring has sprung here in the SLC, and with the warming sun comes the Red Butte concert series for the...
The Flume
I didn't know that the poet Robert Frost had one of his homes in New Hampshire, or that most of...
Two Lights
One must navigate the seaside towns and winding streets of New England to find your way to the coast, as...
The Flint Hills of Kansas
Beauty is all about your perception, what you choose to see, and how it will affect you. The Flint Hills...
more Iron & Wine please….
I'm so enamored with the band Iron and Wine that I flew to Toronto to see them live in 2011....
the life of Helga Weissova
Helga was a mere eleven years old when she and her family were taken to Terezin in 1941 by the...
the magnetism of Jim James
Sometimes one's lack of the details can lead to unexpected rewards. A case in point was the random buying of...