Cape Vincent, New York a small town at the point where Lake Ontario and the waters of the Great Lakes squeeze into the St. Lawrence River on it’s way to the Atlantic. A quaint, deeply historic town with a beautiful lighthouse and an annual gathering of the Kingston Outdoor Adventure Club. The Lighthouse, or at …
I’m probably the textbook definition of an introvert. I’d rather stay home most nights than go out to one social event after another. I enjoy quiet, solitary activities like reading, writing, gaming, gardening, or drawing. I’ll always choose the company of a few close friends over a wild party. I do my best work alone. …
When you’re making a mad scramble across a continent and back sometimes you have to devote the day to driving and miss out on the photos. Some days you’re lucky to get one shot. Today was that day. But it was a decent shot – a vertical panorama on the phone because my camera couldn’t …
There some places on this planet you visit once and thereafter you are always drawn back. For me, Jasper and in particular Athabasca Falls is one of those places. Of the many places I’ve been in the last few years – the falls always beckon when I’m anywhere close. The reasons? Mostly personal, a reminder …
Is exactly what it says it is. In one of the driest places in North America if not the world it sits there as a reminder that time changes things. Even rock if given the time. Length: 1 mi (3.2km) out and back round tripTime: 45 minutes round tripDifficulty: EasyElevation Gain: 86 ft (26m)Location: The unpaved Natural Bridge Road is …
By the mid-19th century, Mormon immigrants had made their way across the Colorado River. Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the travelers westward. the National Park Service Amazingly enough when you’re driving along or hiking in …
The “Island Trail” at Walnut Canyon is not exactly an island, or at least it hasn’t been for a very long time even when the Sinagua (Spanish for “without water”), made their homes in these cliffs high above the canyon floor. Up to four hundred people may have lived in these cliff dwelling at one …
At some point about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, everyone in the general area of what later was Northeastern Arizona looked up and that was it…. A place I always wanted to see – I blame the “The Wonderful World of Disney” – Meteor Crater in Arizona lived up to it’s billing of being …
One thing about traipsing around historic sites in Canada you rarely have to worry about the rattlesnakes. Things are a little different in New Mexico. As you set down the footpath to the Pueblo ruins at Abo & Quaria the sign above greets you. Noted. The ruins themselves were fascinating even with the absence, thankfully …