Adam’s Peak (also known as Sri Pada, or “holy footprint”) is located in the southwestern part of Hill Country. It’s 2,243 meters (7,359 ft) high, the tallest mountain in this region .
Hopping a freighter isn’t what it used to be. Which is to say it takes a great deal more planning and bother than the adventure of my imagination. Maybe I could find a tramp freighter if hanging around in a…
While recently visiting Florida’s fascinating Everglades, I spent the better part of a day in the small town of “Everglades City”. This town is within a few miles of the ocean and is best known as a good place to go for air-boat rides into…
There are few things that liven up a hiking day more than stumbling on a shipwreck. At least that’s my life’s experience (based on this one wreck)! One of my most interesting back-country backpacking experiences was…
One of the rarest animals I’ve ever encountered in nature is the African Wild Dog.
Here’s the discussion to go with this WITW. As you can see from the comment thread attached to theoriginal link, a lot of people had good ideas about this destination. And how lucky is a city to have not one, but two…
Here’s the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach’s Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance…
My first introduction to Horton Plains National Park was in Hans Mohemius’ photo room at his home in Colombo. It is a beautiful high altitude plateau, with dramatic scenery.
Portland, Maine is a great place to visit any time (even in the winter!) but it’s hard to imagine a more exciting moment to have been there on the day they built the world’s longest lobster roll! The roll for the roll is seen arriving,…
Getting to Nyaungshwe from Mandalay by air is a surreal experience. But then much of travel in Burma is, in one way or another, surreally beautiful or incongruous. In this case it’s the latter.
Adam’s Peak (also known as Sri Pada, or “holy footprint”) is located in the southwestern part of Hill Country. It’s 2,243 meters (7,359 ft) high, the tallest mountain in this region .
Hopping a freighter isn’t what it used to be. Which is to say it takes a great deal more planning and bother than the adventure of my imagination. Maybe I could find a tramp freighter if hanging around in a…
While recently visiting Florida’s fascinating Everglades, I spent the better part of a day in the small town of “Everglades City”. This town is within a few miles of the ocean and is best known as a good place to go for air-boat rides into…
There are few things that liven up a hiking day more than stumbling on a shipwreck. At least that’s my life’s experience (based on this one wreck)! One of my most interesting back-country backpacking experiences was…
One of the rarest animals I’ve ever encountered in nature is the African Wild Dog.
Here’s the discussion to go with this WITW. As you can see from the comment thread attached to theoriginal link, a lot of people had good ideas about this destination. And how lucky is a city to have not one, but two…
Here’s the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach’s Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance…
My first introduction to Horton Plains National Park was in Hans Mohemius’ photo room at his home in Colombo. It is a beautiful high altitude plateau, with dramatic scenery.
Portland, Maine is a great place to visit any time (even in the winter!) but it’s hard to imagine a more exciting moment to have been there on the day they built the world’s longest lobster roll! The roll for the roll is seen arriving,…
Getting to Nyaungshwe from Mandalay by air is a surreal experience. But then much of travel in Burma is, in one way or another, surreally beautiful or incongruous. In this case it’s the latter.
