I planted my three tomato plants so late that I still have a month to wait before my tomatoes are ready to eat. But my -->

I've taken 1,693,819 steps since March 16. That's an average of more then 12,000 steps per day, every day, seven -->

Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, is a satirical tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up without a nose—just a -->

I purchased a ticket to watch the Bayreuth (Germany) production of Tannhäuser, but the streaming link never arrived. Glen and I were -->

These are the days of reverse travel. I had planned to be in Germany this month for the Bayreuth Festival. Instead, the -->

With the lack of travel due to COVID, I was delighted to hear that the Earth has a visitor from the solar system-->

I am a traveler. After 16 trips last year and 2 earlier this year, it was difficult to have my travel life come to a screeching -->

My idea of local and distant travel has been shaped by my having crossed the Antarctic Circle, the Arctic Circle -->

When most people think of Napa, the towns in the valley come to mind—Napa, St. Helena, Yountville, Oakville, Calistoga, and -->

Great Basin National Park sits on the eastern side of Nevada. To get to Califonia from there requires driving route 50, which is called →

Great Basin National Park is one of the few areas where you can find the bristlecone pine. A short hike (2.8 miles round trip) with some →

Great Basin became a National Park in 1986. Its relatively isolated location attracts only 200,000 visitors per year. That’s approximately →

When I went to Snowbird I expected to learn about the wildflowers and animals in that area. Indeed I did. The pot gut squirrel →

When most people think of Snowbird, they imagine skiing downhill. For me, it means hiking downhill. After getting off the tram at →

The first thing most ski resorts turn to when trying to attract a summer crowd is mountain biking. Not all of us mountain bike. Even if →

Bryce Canyon National Park claims to have the largest concentration of hoodoos found anywhere on the planet. Hoodoos are columns of rock →

Looking at this image it’s impossible to tell that it’s 117º F outside. Yet if you had been in the hotel room when I placed my bare foot →

As beautiful as Yosemite is, at this time of year I prefer driving through the park, over Mono pass, and heading for the Mammoth Lakes →

Most people would agree that August is the best time to visit Seattle, when the temperature can get as high as 77 °F and chances of →

The most important player in a total eclipse is the sun. It has to be visible in all its glory. Otherwise you won’t see the spectacle of →