As we pull up to the familiar Maasai village, I marvel to myself how comfortable I am here in this place. Over the years, I’ve gone from an outsider looking in to calling these people my friends. I see David, the younger tribal chief, and greet him warmly as I inquire about village life. Everything…
Tag: outdoor adventures
the Salt Flats
After almost a month outside my country, the return has been a difficult adjustment. I need time to re-evaluate priorities, with no distractions. The Salt seemed the ideal place for some perspective. The Bonneville Salt Flats are so flat you seem to see the curvature of the planet, so barren not…
The Flume
I didn’t know that the poet Robert Frost had one of his homes in New Hampshire, or that most of his poetry was written about life in New England. Akin to his infamous poem, it seemed that the road not taken by myself led me to an unknown destination that made all of the difference….
me and the Salton Sea
The cold, snow and ice has gripped my hometown in a killer’s vice, the inversion of dirty pollution has one coughing like a coal miner. It was time for warmer weather and to see if the sky was still blue somewhere in the world. What I found could be the start of the zombie apocalypse,…
Lower Antelope (part 4)
Upon returning to milepost 302 after lunch, the three of us met Stetson, our new guide for the afternoon. As we were driving to the next canyon, he told us the story about how his Mom and Aunt own the land the canyons are on, the process they went through getting the permits and starting…
Upper Antelope (part 3)
It’s mid morning when we pull up to the entrance of Upper Antelope.More cars and safari vans are also parked here, which is a shock since the tour so far has only been the three of us and our guide. It’s the most infamous of the canyons though, and as we enter the first…
Starting with Owl (part 1)
The blogging world is a curious one indeed, and can sometimes happily lead me to places and adventures that most likely would never have been realized otherwise. Such was the case with a blogger talking about Antelope Canyon, outside Page, Arizona. She raved on and on about the canyon she saw, and how she…
Mosca
I first heard about North America’s largest sand dunes from Runaway Juno on her blog. This set the wheels in motion to adventure on down to experience them for myself, on the weekend of the Fall Equinox.The Great Sand Dunes National Park just outside Mosca, Colorado in the United States. The park is at an elevation…
one with the buffalo on the Canadian plains
Softly creeping down the old wooden steps to the lobby for morning coffee, I catch a glimpse of brilliant light from a yonder window. I step outside to a wind that chills me to the bone, but my breath gasps from the sight before me….Gathering only the barest of essentials ; camera, jacket, and thermos,…
on the road to the most photographed hotel in the world
My GPS indicates that it will take about two hours to drive from Lake McDonald in West Glacier, over the “going to the Sun” road through the national park, then crossing the border into Alberta, Canada and onto my final destination of the Waterton International Peace Park. GPS doesn’t take into account nature’s beauty though,…
Catharsis at Glacier
Our family went on vacation a few years back to Glacier National Park. My sister was killed a few months later. My mind continually finds itself returning here to remember the simple things we did as brother and sister.I returned to Glacier over labor day weekend a couple of weeks ago in attempt to purge…
Over rivers & through woods
“Are you a psychopath or a sociopath?”“Do you really want to know?”“I want to know if you are going to chop me up into little bits, put me in your freezer next to your corn dogs and slowly feed me to the stray cats, or if you just have no human feelings…?”“Bugger off.”“I’ll go with…