Discovering the world one spot on the globe at a time

• Capitol Reef National Park
• Nashville, TN
• Bryce Canyon
• Grand Canyon, at last!
• Grand Staircase: Buckskin Gultch, Toadstool Hoodoos, Vermilion Cliffs and Condors
• Escalante: Lower Calf Creek Falls
• Escalante: Zebra and Tunnel Slot Canyons
• Escalante: Peekaboo, Brimstone and Spooky Slot Canyons
• Moss Cave, Shakespeare Peak and Water Canyon near Bryce Canyon NP
• Zion Canyon, February 2021
• Mohave Desert February 2021
• Serbia sights
• Atzompa
• Ocotlán de Morales, San Bartolo Coyotepec, San Martin Tilcajete, San Antonino Castillo Velasco
• Teotitlán del Valle, Tlacolula, Santiago Matatlán
• Oaxaca continues
• Oaxaca, Mexico, Day 1.25
• Rwanda Volcanos National Park Mountain Gorillas
• Lifou, New Caledonia
• Tanna, Vanuatu
• Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
• Birds of Kiritimati
• Kiritimati, Kiribati
• Greetz from a tiny windowless shack on the edge of a long green field i.e. Abaiang Airport terminal
• Abaiang Island, Kiribati… Also: Tarawa and Dani waxes philosophical…
• Scribblings from onboard the flight to Tarawa, Kiribati (report on the Solomon Islands’ capital Honiara and many related stories)
• Marovo diving and vocabulary, Uepi Island, and other stories…
• Deep in the Marovo Lagoon, Western Province, Solomon Islands
• Missive from a small island off Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands AKA a very very lucky day!
• Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands
• Munda, West Province, Solomon Islands
• Leaving Funafuti, Tuvalu
• More Kadavu, Fiji
• Kadavu Island, Fiji
• Easter Island
• Antarctica!!!!!! (2 weeks on a Russian / Australian research vessel)
• Aokink, Pali Aike, and further South
• Karukinka, back at Estancia Camarón, Estancia Josefina, more king penguins… and other adventures
• At the end of the world
• Back on Tierra del Fuego aka guanacos, Rus Fin, Karukinka and Yandegaia, Croatian Chileans and End of the World
• The Falklands, Torres del Paine, Argentina, moody elephant seals, 4 kinds of penguins and millions of them, giant cormorant colonies, caracara, sexy fur seals… and other stories…
• Magellan Penguins and Punta Arenas
• I just uncovered a story of Chilean nepotism and corruption
• El Chaltén
• Hello Argentina!
• Bye Hank, hello Punta Arenas!
• Epic drive ends… for right now… Also: awesome adventure in Tierra Del Fuego
• Magellan Strait
• Pictures from Torres del Paine National Park
• 2-day ferry through a vast and remote wilderness deep in the heart of Patagonia… And flashback to Cerro Castillo, Puerto Rio Tranquillo, Marble Caves, San Rafael Lagoon National Park impossible glacier hike, Parque Nacional Patagonia, Puerto Bertrand, the most magestic Rio Baker, Perras Locas, overturned canoe, hanging town of Caleta Tortel and many many other stories…
• Exhausted but blissed aka Cerro Castillo and a crazy trouble to get here…
• Queulat Park, Ventisquiero Colgante, Queulat Fjord, and the pig-tail tribe…
• Futuleufú white-water rafting
• Futaleufú
• Termas Amarillo
• Goodbye Peumalin Park
• Peumalin National Park
• Ferries, ferries: Hornopiren to Caleta Gonzalo
• From the very South of Chiloe all the way to Hornopiren on Carretera Austral AKA I’m a bad-ass driver 😉
• President Piñera’s park
• Hike from Cucao to Cole Cole Beach
• Castro to Cucao to the Southern end of the Chiloe National Park
• Happy birthday to me… and Chiloe’s UNESCO-protected churches… and stuff
• More of Chepu, Chiloe National Park, penguins, submerged forest and a sublime beach
• Chepu
• Happy New Year from Chiloe!
• Puerto Octay, Puerto Varas, Osorno Volcano, Reserva Huilo Huilo, Mapuche villages on Lago Ranco… and such
• Villarica Volcano and then Villarica town…
• Volcanos, lakes, the road…
• Parque Nacional Conguillo
• Volcanos, volcanos, volcanos…
• Malalcuhuello
• Altos de Lircay
• Altos de Lircay
• Radal Siete Tazas
• Santa Cruz
• Parque Nacional Frei Jorge
• Valley of the Stars…
• From Caleta Chañeral to Valle de Elqui
• Caleta Chañeral
• Parque Nacional Pinguino Humboldt
• Punta Chorros
• Pan de Azúcar
• Gato Andino, Atacama
• Atacama Desert plus waxing philosophical
• Atacama Desert
• Codpa Valley to Iquique via Humberstone
• Putre to Lauca Park, Reserva Vicuña, Missionary Route to Codpa
• Putre, Lauca Park… looking at Bolivia
• Roadtrip North to South begins: Arrica
• Santiago Sunday: Museum of Precolombian Art, Museum of Folk Art, Street art…
• Rock ‘n Roll Santiago
• Santiago and other stories
• Santiago rambling(s)
• Valpo continued
• Valparaiso
• Santiago continued
• Santiago Day 1 1/2
• Hello Santiago!!!!
• ‘Eua!
• Blue Lagoon, tiny island, pot plantation, eccentric German owner… and whales whales whales
• Vava’u, whales and waxing philosophical…
• Whale of a time in Vava’u
• Vava’u, Tonga
• Ha’apai
• Whales, whales, whales!!! And a quick report from the island life…
• Kathmandu, take 2
• Maratika Caves, Nepal
• Annapurna
• Pokhara
• Everest!
• National Art Gallery in Bhaktapur
• Kathmandu: first impressions
• Back to Paro for the Paro Dzong tchetchu, climb to Tiger’s Nest and other ‘Bhutan is Bhutiful!’ adventures…
• Punakha impressions and meeting the royals
• Phobjika Valley religious and secular adventures, phalus-filled walk to a Fertility Temple, and a festival at the Talo Monastery
• Thimphu, Bhutan, March 14, 2018
• Druk Trek: Paro to Thimphu over Bhutanese Himalayas
• My first day in Bhutan!
• On the way to the Happiness Kingdom!
• More Oaxaca sights for you