• Andechs Another Way: A Pilgrim’s Progress on a Path Less Traveled

    I have hiked the popular route from Herrsching to Andechs Abbey many times, and it’s a very pleasant beer hike. This time, though, I wanted some variety – a different…

    Andechs another way

    Spain Legs in Segovia

    Segovia … I had never been there and I hadn’t studied up on the place. The first thing that came…

    Imagine the stories playing out in this photo!

    Village in Iran by Mohammadreza Momeni via onebigphoto…

    VWMacroMacroBus

    Imagine if Arlo Guthrie had this VW at the time of the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree …  it would have taken…

    Want to put things in perspective?

    This short YouTube clip takes a tour of the largest photograph ever taken … a multi-gigapixel image of Andromeda from…

    Striking Textures

    When I saw this image by Albuquerque photographer Lynn Black, my mind started arguing with itself about what I was…

    Solstice – The Turning Point

    The turning point is here.  The shortening days will now start getting longer … at least for the next six…

    Tucson Trolley

    It’s a crisp, fall morning in Tucson, Arizona and my wife and I woke up to some great hospitality from…

    Old West Highway Detour

    Roadtrips in the southwest USA tend to take two different forms for me. One kind is about spending some time…

    Magic Doors

    Cool promo for rail travel in Europe.  I think that many places would love to have one of these ……

    How Wolves Have Changed the Rivers in Yellowstone

    This four minute video from Sustainable Human describes the far reaching and surprising (to a lay-person like me) effects that have…

    A Volksmarch in Bavaria

    On a misty morning I woke up early and started a pot of coffee. It had been a late night…