Sutro Bath Ruins / San Francisco

Sutro Bath Ruins / San Francisco

To reach Land’s End in San Francisco, travel west on Geary Blvd until it meets the Great Highway. The sky opens up and the land lives up to its name – it ends. Here, the Pacific Ocean pummels what is left of the Sutro Bath ruins. The Sutro Baths were...
Kayaking Down Bayou Lafourche

Kayaking Down Bayou Lafourche

Day 1 – Donaldsonville to Napoleonville – 4/9/14 This is my second attempt at paddling the 106-mile Bayou Lafourche from source to mouth. My first attempt, back in July of 2010, ended at mile 75 in heat stroke and exhaustion. That would not happen again,...
Wissahickon Valley Park

Wissahickon Valley Park

Philadelphia, PA is an exciting city, brimming with history, great food, and if you look hard enough, very nice people. During my wife’s graduate studies at the University of the Arts, we were lucky enough to make several long-time friends. Most of our time in...
Zion: West Rim

Zion: West Rim

Day three in Zion looked quite different form the previous days. The sun disappeared, and in its place were low hanging clouds that spit mist from dawn to about 4:00 PM. The drizzle tamed the dust and generated cooler hiking temperatures. I packed up all of my gear...
Mount Whitney

Mount Whitney

Part two of our 2006 California trip takes us from the bowels of Death Valley to the top of the country – 14,505 foot Mount Whitney. Once again, Jason Hughes is our narrator unless otherwise noted. Taylor: If you want to climb Mount Whitney, then your voyage...