Craters of the Moon

Driving through the desert of Idaho, I was enjoying the landscape: flat land full of sagebrush and flanked by mountains.…

Canyonlands: Needles

Two things startled me so much they actually made me gasp a few days ago. I was in the Needles…

Paw Paw Tunnel

Toward the beginning of my trip (back in late August), I visited the Paw Paw Tunnel. It’s in Maryland even…

Road Life

My bed is in the middle of my living room. A wall of stuff surrounds me when I sleep. When…

BLM

I can guess what your mind goes to here, but for my daily life, BLM means Bureau of Land Management.…

Bear Butte State Park

Cheyenne and Lakota (Sioux) tribes have long regarded Bear Butte as a sacred place (it is thought to be a…

Garden of the Gods

People gathered here at sundown as if for mass. We were sun worshipers again. Although I had driven to the…

The Gifts of Kentucky

After a lovely night at the Holly Bay campground in the Daniel Boone National Forest, I visited Cumberland Falls, the…