The Ritual of the Voladores
As I'm walking around the Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, I look up to see the most bizarre sight....men hanging...
Travel
Oils! Oils! Oils!
I'm the son of an immigrant. My mother came to this country from Australia when she was eighteen years old...
Kayaking the Colorado river
My kayaking adventure with Evolution Expeditions entailed eight miles of awesomeness down the Colorado river. Due to the construction of...
My hike to the Colorado river (prelude)
5am in Vegas, and the party was still going strong in the streets. I quietly sip coffee and wait for...
The Durango Railroad
Trains are my favorite way to see the world. You get the old world nostalgia seeing the steam rise from...
Sigur Ros
I had never even heard of the band Sigur Ros before, but I know my instincts well enough by now...
Guanacaste
Costa Rica would be the first country I would attempt to enter after being denied entry in Montreal. That bitter...
Ventura Pier
The gringo shuffles his boots slowly along the boardwalk, waiting for the sun to rise. The ocean waves of Ventura...
Mount Moriah Cemetery
In the year 1878 on a plateau high above Deadwood gulch, the bodies of "Wild Bill" Hickok and soon thereafter,...
The Mickelson Trail
It was a beautiful Autumn morning as I woke up in Deadwood, on the day of the 46th year since...
The cliffs of Elwood
Emerging from Goleta Grove I can hear the old familiar sound of ocean waves breaking on the shore. Roads crisscross...
Deadwood
As the plane landed in Rapid City, I got my first glimpse of the Black Hills off in the distance....