Lake Stuart

I purchased overnight camping passes for the Lake Stuart Zone in the Enchantments area of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Washington state. It’s due east of Seattle and north of Mt. Rainier. It takes me 4 1/2 hours just to get to the trailhead, but I can’t help myself: it is so beautiful there. I’ve […]

Mini RT series – two

Day two we headed east and then dropped south from the Columbia River Gorge to explore the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.

Missed day #3 in Burma

Here is the final day I skipped when I had no Internet while traveling in Myanmar. Please click the image to go to the post.

All Day Trekking

Hein brought up the Rohingya. NONE of us tourists were about to be the first one to speak the word.

Trekking from Kalaw

We walked to Hin Kha Gone and Myin Taik villages, through areas with the Paulaung and Dannu people.

On a trail again

On the trail is where I find my bliss.

Sunshine at Lake Todos los Santos

At long last the rain dried up and the clouds parted.

Day hike in the Andes

Count them: five lakes in one day. Villarrica, Caburgua, Tinquilco, Chico, Del Toro.

North Idaho panorama

Despite their infrequency, the trips Tara and I always enjoy are the periodic visits to see my stepfather Jim at his remarkable mountaintop cabin. Tara has known that mountain all their life, and confessed to spiritually “needing” to be there sometimes, to go for a walk alone, and to reconnect to childhood and peace and the […]

Beach time

Confession: I live about 40 minutes’ drive from the Pacific Ocean and I hardly ever go there! That’s a crime, isn’t it? Yes, yes it is. In 2016 I’ve been to the beach two times. I went to Astoria for my birthday in January, and later in the Spring, I went out with a group […]