Anyone who is a fan of SciFi will remember this volcano as the place Jules Verne’s Professor and his team began their Journey to the Center of the Earth (which was reached from the volcano via a series of lava tubes). …
Jökulsárlón (which literally means “glacial river lagoon”) is a large glacial lake in southeast Iceland, on the edge of Vatnajökull National Park. Situated at the head of the Breiðamerkurjökul l …
So far at least, no one has identified the location for this travel puzzle. PHeymont correctly identified it as “Skull Rock”, but did not provide a more specific site. Gumbo was visiting one of America’s most unusual parks, Joshua…
Sometimes some of the most interesting things to photograph are right in your own backyard. I’ve previously published photos featuring the ever changing skies in my home city of Calgary, which you can see here. Today I thought…
This is the time of year when those of us who love to hike have our eyes gazing to the tops of the mountains, longing to get up to those high passes. But there’s still a lot of snow and ice up there, at least in Western Canada and the Pacific…
The large basalt mass of Steamboat Rock is a distinct landmark in Central Washington state. Steamboat Rock State Park is a dozen miles southwest of the massive Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. The Park is on a peninsula…
Sometimes when I reflect on my travels, trends stand out that I might otherwise never have noticed. For example, I’d not have thought myself unusually interested in volcanoes or lava, but in the past few years I’ve visited a…
There’s sometime viscerally disconcerting about looking into the eyes of an alligator. Dark, non-blinking, but clearly focused on you, it sends a shiver up my spine. Something being tickled in the primitive parts of my brain — prey…
Anyone who is a fan of SciFi will remember this volcano as the place Jules Verne’s Professor and his team began their Journey to the Center of the Earth (which was reached from the volcano via a series of lava tubes). …
Jökulsárlón (which literally means “glacial river lagoon”) is a large glacial lake in southeast Iceland, on the edge of Vatnajökull National Park. Situated at the head of the Breiðamerkurjökul l …
So far at least, no one has identified the location for this travel puzzle. PHeymont correctly identified it as “Skull Rock”, but did not provide a more specific site. Gumbo was visiting one of America’s most unusual parks, Joshua…
Sometimes some of the most interesting things to photograph are right in your own backyard. I’ve previously published photos featuring the ever changing skies in my home city of Calgary, which you can see here. Today I thought…
This is the time of year when those of us who love to hike have our eyes gazing to the tops of the mountains, longing to get up to those high passes. But there’s still a lot of snow and ice up there, at least in Western Canada and the Pacific…
The large basalt mass of Steamboat Rock is a distinct landmark in Central Washington state. Steamboat Rock State Park is a dozen miles southwest of the massive Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. The Park is on a peninsula…
Sometimes when I reflect on my travels, trends stand out that I might otherwise never have noticed. For example, I’d not have thought myself unusually interested in volcanoes or lava, but in the past few years I’ve visited a…
There’s sometime viscerally disconcerting about looking into the eyes of an alligator. Dark, non-blinking, but clearly focused on you, it sends a shiver up my spine. Something being tickled in the primitive parts of my brain — prey…
