Nature, environment, and a little philosophy
A late summer outing to Santa Rosa Island Water, wind and sunlight are the prevailing elements out here among California's Channel Islands. All is scoured, bleached, or blue. Look at aerials of the outlying islands, Santa Rosa and San Miguel. Can you see the long, parallel dunes stretching across the islands like filaments? The dunes …
Choose a Friday evening in any season. Work’s loose ends are tied but a busy weekend lies ahead: a family birthday; a gym class; volunteering; dinner with friends. But there’s still time for an adventure. The car is packed: two people, a tent, sleeping bags and dinner already made. Take the Eight East. In twenty …
I. C'est notre premier voyage hors des Etats-Unis depuis le début de la pandémie. Les vols domestiques sont bondés. Notre premier vol, de San Diego à Dallas, part en retard et les passagers se plaignent entre eux. Il y a eu des vagues d'annulations et chacun compare depuis combien de jours il se présente à …
Light seeps into the sky. Dawn breaks but mountains hide the sun. There's movement in a nearby sleeping bag. Shift deeper into the duvet. Pull the hood over. Trap the heat. Fall back asleep.
Our annual Sierra Nevada backpacking trip might be the only predictable part of our lives, yet we're never proactive enough to score permits for the "good" trailheads. That's how we found ourselves hiking over Baxter Pass in the last week of June, elevation 12,300-feet (3,749 meters), practically alone on the trail, managing headaches and nose …
Our big birding day, that is. San Diego County has more species of birds than any other county in the United States: 520 species. On Global Big Day, Eric and I set out to see as many of them as we could. We have a lot of birds because we have a lot of geography; …
Stars, like salt. 