Random Past Posts
Four-Wheelers and Fishermen: Creede, Colorado 2012 My trip to Creede wasn't all (or even mostly) about leaves and cameras. (You can click here to see the fall foliage pictures). My Dad brought a trailer-full of 4-wheel ATVs. So I spent a few days going More...
Clovis: Seeking my Inner Cave Man? How big a nerd do you have to be to spend your birthday poking around a couple of obscure museums and an archaeological site in rural New Mexico? Apparently, finding the bones or fossils of a (“wooly”) Mammoth in North America is More...
My Kind of Town I live in Houston, America’s fourth largest city. Only New York, L.A., and Chicago are bigger, and if I had to choose among those three for a next-choice favorite city to live in, I think I’d choose Chicago every time. More...
The Road to Uaxactun (Guatemala) The muddy, bumpy, 14-mile trek to the town (and the archaeological sites) of Uaxuctun takes just over an hour. So that’s how much time I got to spend with a blind, 100-year-old Guatemalan man named Julio and his great-grandson, Manuel. More...
Inle Lake, Burma: Life on the Water Inle Lake was another interesting stop in my tour of Burma -- but the core and highlights of the trip were still to come. There’s a famous Monty Python comedy skit that takes the “we-walked-to-school-uphill-in-snow” joke to its ultimate More...