​At first glance, one would wonder why go to the Grand Canyon in winter? =========================================================================================== As of September 4, 2021: Notice: Wearing a face mask is required in all buildings in the national park, regardless of vaccination status. The Grand Canyon Railway & Hotel is now ope...

Sure, you can drive to the top and get a bumper sticker that reads "This Car Climbed Pikes Peak", but it's more rewarding to get the t-shirt proclaiming the feat done with your feet.​ Pikes Peak isn't a technical climb. You don't need mountaineering gear, ropes, or ice axes. This is a hike that can be accomplished by anyone in reasonable shape...

Picking a WinnerI reach in tentatively, cautiously. My outstretched finger gently touches the sphere. Then gently giving a little tug the blue tidbit comes free in my hand. *** UPDATE August 8th, 2021*** All the varieties are still producing TONS of blueberries!! It is unbelievable how plentiful the bushes are! Ask our friendly staff to point you i...

Wrong turns can be a real pain in the, well, the neck. Even more so when you're deep in the Yucatan jungle! If you can get a signal, the GPS shows your location on a satellite map, but rarely shows how you got there. This happened to me just recently. I was driving from Mérida towards Campeche in the Yucatan province of Mexico to find the Grutas de...

With travel opening up across Canada, now is the time to visit Montreal for its big-city French flair. Montréal, the largest city in Canada's Québec province, is located on an island in the Saint Lawrence River and named after Mt. Royal, the triple-peaked hill at its heart. After being starved of air travel for the past 17 months, we board an Air C...

A warm wind blows across me, but I still feel a chill run down my back. I'm alone in the desert. I'm at one of the darkest places on earth, according to my map. It's a little scary, especially while visions of coyotes, scorpions, and roving gangs of desert hares dance in my head. I'm here to photograph monsters. It isn't my imagination. I saw them ...