Afterimage: My Fathers Birthday Today is my father's birthday. He would have been seventy. Try as I might I can't see him at this age just as I can't seem to picture myself at...
The Dakar Rally: A legendary past in pictures Competitors are gathered in the Trocadéro Gardens next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, ahead of the inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally, which was renamed...
The Faroe Islands: Isolated Beauty Photographer Julian Calverley recently got a job in Faroe Islands, in the Kingdom of Denmark. He used the frequent dead times during the...
A favorite revisited: The Lost City of Z Revisiting a favorite: The Lost City of Z By RICH COHEN What drove the British, from the start of the age of empire to its...
Our top 10 cities to get lost in Lost Cities were real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that fell into terminal decline and whose location was later lost. Most...
Meridian- Neither Here Nor There Its the Meridian, that imaginary half of a great circle, curving from pole to pole that has us thinking about our journeys as of late. Where are we...
Why? Force 7 Winds On An Atlantic Crossing If you would know the age of the earth, look upon the sea in a storm. The grayness of the whole...
The island of French magicians and a question of returning to the past. The roar of the plane is still with us, the buffeting of wind and air as we leave the sky behind, the tear drops of island chains in the blueness,the...
The long goodbye The wooden ferry lurches forward and a plume of smoke settles over lower town dock. As we pull away we are waving at my mother. The children with...
Out of sorts on the Ides of March March has us jangled and out of sorts. One could easily write off the whole month as nothing seemed to go as planned but our predicament certainly...
Dr No & Round Hill An early swim out to the small, horse shoe reef has been the only thing pressing each day.. I swim out, feeling the water move from chill...
Armchair Mountaineers- Planning to Plan inspiration in oxidation. One of E.H's Plans begin to unfold something...
A North Woods Sky We are sitting next to the large purple buddleia. It's dusky smell making itself known when allowed by the stiffening breeze coming off Sturgeon...