When I was much younger, I viewed travel to somewhere as the prelude to an adventure. Travel was a conveyance—something to move me from...

Every time I take a photograph, I capture light. That's what makes us able to see. I've always been fascinated with trying to emphasize...

I was cleaning up an old hard drive when I came across photos from Morocco that I had not yet moved to my newer computer. As I was...

What's around me depends on the day and time. So when the 365-Day Project gave me that as a topic, I was standing in the kitchen deciding...

In the near future, I'll be embarking on the Greg Mortimer, a 132-passenger adventure ship. As I'm meeting it in Dublin, I wondered where...

Cleaning out hard drives is really no different from cleaning out closets. Each item stored on it evokes a memory. If it doesn't then...

The Los Gatos-Saratoga branch of the Association of University Women has an Armchair Adventure Travel special interest group. The first...

Not too long ago I wrote about a hike in the snow I took at Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. Just 45 minutes prior to the hike, I...

While walking outdoors today, I saw hundreds of bugs flying through the air. At first I thought they might be those tiny gnats that seem...

Paris and Rome have their catacombs, but Seattle has its underground. The burgeoning town was started on tide flats in what is now the...

When we were cruising around the San Juan Islands recently, one of the passengers pointed at the shore and exclaimed, "Anacondas!"...

While hiking in the San Juan Islands recently, I came across this tree that looked like Groot rising up from the forest floor. Not the...

When I hike through the woods, I spend a lot of time looking at the ground to make sure I don't trip over tree roots and rocks. Sometimes...

Need I say more? One week ago my Covid at-home test was positive. A few days later, my lab-based PCR test was positive. Now I am back to...

The Sea, by Irish author John Banville, was reviewed in The Guardian as one of the best Irish novels. Because I have plans to travel to...

(Image: William Dent, CCO, via Wikimedia Commons) For more than two years I've felt as if I've been evading Covid, much like a fox evades...

According to Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput was an island of tiny people who were only inches tall. I imagine that the flowers on the...

About a week ago, the boat on which I was cruising stopped at Port Angeles and arrange for me and my fellow passengers to bus into...

The weather at the start of my recent trip to the San Juan Islands was such that the Captain decided to stay anchored near Hope Island...

Until the mid-20th century, Spencer Spit on Lopez Island was a popular location for Native Americans to crab, fish, and dig for clams. It...