January 7, 2023 “I shut my eyes in order to see.” Paul Gauguin We traveled Southwest about 1/3 the way around the island to our eventual...

January 5-6, 2023 “French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The...

December 27, 2022 So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope...

December 7, 2022 “Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are...

“The grand lift of the Tetons is … a primal gesture of the Earth beneath a greater sky.” - Ansel Adams I would be remiss if I did not...

“Yellowstone is symbolic of “America’s Best Idea.” Its wildlife is a sight many Americans travel many miles to see. Its geology...

“Beyond the reach of Human art” - Thomas Moran - a 19th century painter trying to describe the Yellowstone Valley. His paintings were...

“When the park shall have been made accessible to the pleasure-seekers of the world, it will be a satisfaction not to be derived from...

“My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.” - Miguel Ferrer I really don’t know much about Wyoming other than its...

July 11, 2022 “At the next roundabout, take the second exit…” - By far the most common phrase we heard from Google maps on this long...

July 8, 2022 ”Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of...

July 6, 2022 “Oh thank God, we are back to the France I like…” - Colleen Dobbs How can any reasonable person complain about being on the...

July 3, 2022 “….waving through a window” — Dear Evan Hansen It was the quality of the cars that I first noticed. This was not a casual...

July 1, 2022 “So it goes on, a lament for a simpler, cheaper, less crowded world that may or may not have existed except in nostalgic...

“And, as for the oil, it is a masterpiece. You’ll see. Before dinner that night, we tested it, dripping it onto slices of bread that had...

“Yet could I these two days have spent. While still the autumn sweetly shone, Ah me! I might have died content when I looked on...

“We then wed our lithofacies analysis with systematic detrital zircon sampling to assess the role depositional environments play on...

“When I married Eleanor, I thought: ‘You lucky man. The richest woman in the world. She owns the Aquitaine, the greatest province on the...

“Oradour was not a crime due to madness but the logic of a system. We must remember this not to see it again, we must live and build a...

June 16-18, 2022 “Man it’s hot. It’s like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot.” - Neil Simon We are experiencing an...