Random Past Posts
Tikal, Guatemala: A Glimpse of the Americas in 900 A.D. Some big piles of rocks in a Guatemalan jungle may change your thinking about "American" history. In the year 800 or so, Tikal was a city of nearly 100,000 Mayan people, set in the northeast part of what is now More...
What’s Good for the Goose . . . Just south of my hometown of Vian, Oklahoma, is Sequoyah Wildlife Refuge. Each fall (and spring) the wheatfields of the refuge are swarmed by tens of thousands of wild geese, migrating toward friendlier climates. My dad drove me through the More...
Switzerland 2013: Jungfrau More pictures from the "Jungfrau" region of Switzerland. The area -- south of Interlaken -- is named for its tallest, snowiest peak. A few times during the past couple of weeks, I was on a bike, just laughing aloud – seemingly More...
Shooting Las Brisas December through May is “summer” in Costa Rica. Though the country is in the northern hemisphere and any good astronomer will point to the solstices and equinoxes to tell you it’s clearly winter, December is when the rain stops More...
Italy: Cinque Terre On Italy’s western Mediterranean coast -- way up north on the front and top of the “boot” – is an area called the Cinque Terre (“five lands”). It’s a series of five colorful little villages that have been hanging on More...