Wild World: White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

White Sands National Monument

Some tourists visit White Sands National Monument expecting to find a monument. Assuming they'll see a statue or obelisk with a bronze commemorative plaque, they find ins...

Hiking Virginia’s Highest Peak

The other day I took a trip to Virginia’s highest mountain peak, Mt. Rogers, accompanied by my brother and dad. Mt. Rogers stands 5,729 ft. at its highest elevation and is known for it’s wide mountainous prairi...

Shaped by the Ages

Though the gusting winds bring only more oppressive heat rather than cool relief and the pot-holed and neglected asphalt roads do their best to return to the land, there is something so achingly beautiful and m...

Exploring Morocco

In April I ventured on a 5 week exploration of Morocco. It was a welcome relief from what I had been told was "a very bad winter" in Europe. As I stepped out the airport into the arms of a swarming taxi mob a s...

A Land of Shimmering Skies

I have been traveling since I was 18; when I was younger I spent a lot of time travelling in Africa - months at a time and a year in one stretch and so now in later life I have felt the need to explore the worl...