After enjoying Halloween and a show with my friend Sallie in Salt Lake City, Ken made a last-minute decision to fly to Los Angeles to visit his friend David. That […]

If there’s one thing Karen and I learned from the international leg of our trip, it’s that we can’t spend every waking hour together, day […]

From Mesa Verde to the Painted Desert to Albuquerque, we’ve seen a potpourri of petroglyphs, those mysterious rock carvings from long ago. A few points […]

We had seen the dire warnings and heard the cautionary tales. But we could not be dissuaded. We would enter the scorching crucible of the […]

Many moons ago (in 1994, to be exact), Karen visited Arches National Park. Her intriguing photo of Delicate Arch hung in the sunroom of our […]

No, this has nothing to do with pie or creme brulee or anything tasty like that. Little signs dotting Utah’s national parks sported the phrase, […]

As if one “canyonland” weren’t enough, the Green and Colorado rivers divide Canyonlands National Park into three separate districts. As I pondered the park map, my […]

Anthropology, archaeology, geology, mineralogy… choose your -ology, and it’s represented here in the Southwest. As scenic as Hovenweep National Monument‘s natural sights are, it’s the human landscape […]

After a holiday break, there are a few more sights from the American Southwest that we’d like to share with you. So flip the calendar […]

On New Year’s Eve a year ago, we finally tasted durian, with predictably extreme reactions. A few moments from Karen and Annette didn’t make it […]

One year ago tonight, we celebrated New Year’s Eve in Malaysia with our Mulu-caving friends, Annette and Peter. After indulging (?!) in a taste of […]

One year ago today, we celebrated Christmas on the Isthmus (of Malaysian Borneo). We indulged in a scrumptious buffet while it poured rain outside. This […]