My good friend Charles Pollard first told me about The Miracle Staircase at Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Charles had seen a documentary on television and enthusiastically told...

There were times during the Summer of 2024, that I thought the Fall Birding trip with TOS I had booked in February of that year, was indeed, wishful thinking....

Late Spring of 2024, Dorothy and I were excited to receive an invitation to attend my nephew Jeremy's wedding, which was to take place on August 31, 2024, near Flint,...

...

In the Fall of 2022 I added a visit to Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, to a rock art trip I planned to Petrified Forest National Park.  About all I...

This little hodgepodge of a blog post covers the Photo Safari and rock art portions of a trip to California that I took in January of 2024.  Much of my...

As 2023 began to wind down, I looked to plan a trip in January of 2024.  I was very close to booking a trip to Panama, but then October 7...

Quite some time ago, while perusing a Frank Lloyd Wright Facebook group post, I first became aware of Auldbrass.  A little research revealed that Auldbrass was a plantation in South...

I am always looking for new birds and new places to watch birds.  Earlier this year I came across a mention of a species called the Harpy Eagle.  As I...

This blog covers Monday, August 21, 2023 a very full day that I spent exploring Cuiabá on my own. The second part of my tour with Jeff Parker did not...