Finally! After 15 years, I saw the incredible WAVE in person. For those of you not familiar with this surreal landscape, the WAVE is the famous geological feature of Coyote Buttes in northern Arizona. In this wilderness near Page, AZ there is no designated trail or even signage along the 6 mile (round trip) hiking...
We recently traveled through central Morocco, and spent a couple days in the Sahara Desert. Temps in July reached 107 degrees, so plans to overnight in a Berber tent quickly changed to air-conditioned accommodations in a renovated kasbah-turned-hotel. Camels, palm trees and kasbahs in this landscape set this desert apart from others we’d visited elsewhere...
Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona Light beams illuminate the narrow slot canyon of Upper Antelope Canyon at midday during summer months. Our Navajo guide stands near the beam he helped illuminate by throwing sand into the light ray. Although it looks serene and etheral, there were hundreds of tourists herded through this space creating a...
My new ThinkTank Airport Acceleration V2 holds a ton of gear! Hauling photography gear anywhere is a pain, but especially to countries that limit you to just one carry-on bag. And they do mean one–no separate computer bag allowed, or even a purse, where you could potentially stash extra flashes or cords. Short of stuffing...
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat complex is a vast, overwhelming sort of place that one can’t explore in a single day. Luckily, we had a week. But still…we had to narrow our choices. Which temples? Which sites? Thank goodness for great guidebooks, the internet, and a terrific local guide who led us to splendid finds. I loved...
Stepping inside a private monastery in Bhutan last November, we happened upon this scene—a group of young monks bent over the floor creating an intricate mandala. First thought, wow, how cool to finally see this…then, do you suppose we can photograph it? Great, now how? The challenge was the lack of natural light. At 5pm,...
In tiny Ura village, located in the cultural heartland of Bumthang, a Lama bestows a protective blessing on Bev. Hidden high in the Himalayas, between northern India and Tibet, is Bhutan, a peaceful, idyllic country whose mantra is national happiness. Cliffside monasteries, medieval fortresses, lavish temples and Swiss Tudor farmhouses dot rural landscapes of terraced rice...
Spring Break. A week off from school…and her bestest friends were going to Disney. “We’re not going anywhere?” our 8 year old daughter asked incredulously. Never mind that our family vacation was coming up next month. Her disappointment only intensified when Grandma called and reminded her that this time last year we were staying at...
Embera woman with her pet kinkajou Not far from the Panama Canal, in the lush rainforest interior of Panama’s Chagres National Park, a young boy wearing nothing but an orange loincloth sits daydreaming while his mother carefully paints long dark lines on his light brown skin. With black stained fingers, she dips bamboo into a...
Nordic skiing…watching the Olympics you’d almost think this sport was easy. The athletes hardly looked winded gliding along soft powdery snow, swishing past whispering pines in idyllic settings. If given the same opportunity, who wouldn’t jump at the chance to try it? Especially when the tour operator claims, “If you can walk, you can ski.”...
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