No Plans Necessary: An Escape To Summit County, Colorado
Shouldn’t a real holiday be an escape from chore lists and the pressure to be somewhere and do something? What happens when you purposely make a trip without plans?
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Category Archives: Nature & Environment
Lost Among The Birds (A Travel Book Review)
This feeling of being an adult who’s somehow missed the path is exactly what Neil Hayward expresses in his unintentional memoir, Lost Among The Birds. Anyone who hopes to find themselves this year should read his book.
Up To My Neck In Awe : Swimming Trinidad’s Guanapo Gorge
“How confident do you mean when you say ‘confident swimmer?'” I challenged our guide for the second time that morning. Only two things could cancel the trip up Guanapo Gorge: afternoon storms and our own insecurities.
455 Remarkable Days (On Staying In One Place For A Long Time)
For the last 455 days, one very settled position (we bought a house!) offered unexpected views, and a brand new perspective on what I’d previously considered familiar scenery. . .
Postage Stamp: Haast, New Zealand
I imagine giants above us, and stare up the narrow cliff sides as if up their bare legs; for the mountains of rock debris could be some fantastical gate destroyed by enormous hands.
With Wakatipu Below: A Helicopter Journey To Cecil Peak
Queenstown’s aluminum roofs shrink to bread boxes, then postcards, as we gain height; at 4,500 feet, it’s a crumb-sized civilization clinging to Lake Wakatipu’s eastern shore…
Up A Mountain Without A Map: Climbing Mt. Parsons
Lost means little when you’re halfway up a rock face, wedged furtively between towers of stone. Every surface looks the same from this angle; no map promises us stable footing.
My partner and I are chasing cairns to the top of Mount Parsons.
