2016 Books and Beds
Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha In this second annual round-up of the books I’ve read and the beds I’ve slept in, I gotta admit I’m cutting corners on the reading list. Every year, I [...]
Baja Cruise: Active on the Sea of Cortez
A Humpback checks out our small Un-Cruise ship at Isla San Francisco Just as we hoped, there was never a dull moment on our Baja cruise on the Sea of Cortez. One afternoon [...]
Skip the Resorts, See Historic San Jose del Cabo
Last light of day over San Jose del Cabo's gallery district and colonial architecture. When John Steinbeck wrote The Log from the Sea of Cortez, the memoir of his specimen-collecting journey with marine [...]
Up-Close Gray Whales
Detouring from the Sea of Cortez, our Un-Cruise Adventure took us across the Baja Peninsula to Magdalena Bay on the Pacific for some whale watching. I was hopeful, but keeping in mind that we might [...]
Golden Nugget in the Sea of Cortez
By day it's plain to see why people refer to the white guano covering this rock as Baja snow. But at dawn, before the sun breaks the horizon, the hues make Roca Solitaria look like [...]
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City
Diego, Frida, and Catarina make a nice detail of the mural depicting Mexican history. Most everyone knows that Cinco de Mayo, May 5, is not Mexico’s Independence Day (which falls on September 16). [...]
Talon Windwalker Plus One: Travel Education
Talon Windwalker Plus One: Travel Education Most travel bloggers will have heard of Talon Windwalker long before this. Apart from traveling and blogging, he’s father to his almost-13-year-old traveling companion, Tigger, and an [...]
2013 in 50 Photographs
Kris and I visited 13 foreign countries this year. In order: Spain, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Canada, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Japan, back to Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary. Our travels within the US [...]
Playa Pescadores, Tulúm, Mexico
Playa Pescadores means Fishermen's Beach, and the boats were lined up on the sand side by side. Occasionally, a pair of men would drag the boat into the surf, fish for a while just offshore [...]
Christ’s Head on a Wall, Atotonilco, Mexico
As we were walking out of the village of Atotonilco, near San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, we saw this head of Christ. It seemed to have been carved from a tree root and stuck upon [...]