Articles & photos of international travel.
Walking outdoors is a great remedy for pandemic confinement. On the east side of California’s impressive Sierra Nevada range from 18 July to Aug 3,… Read More »2020 July: Eastern Sierra hikes & backpack, California
The beautiful parks of Patagonia attracted me for a third visit (January 28–March 7, 2020), escaping from dark Seattle winter to sunny South American summer.… Read More »2020 Patagonia. ARGENTINA: Bariloche & Los Glaciares. CHILE: Torres del Paine.
A diverse RV camping trip took us across the USA from Seattle to: Wyoming’s Wind River Range; Nebraska’s kooky Carhenge; Indiana family; Illinois’ prehistoric Cahokia… Read More »2019 Sept: RV to Wyoming, Carhenge, Cahokia, Colorado, Utah
My favorite jagged rock image from Glacier National Park is now enlarged twice onto a Calgary skyscraper! The image glows on two lightboxes wrapping 64… Read More »2019 Calgary skyscraper glows with Tom’s jagged rock pattern
Our new Pleasure-Way Plateau XLTS RV drove like a dream for 6200 miles round trip from Seattle to Alaska from May 27-July 3, 2019. We… Read More »2019 June: RV: Alaska-Canadian Highway; Cassiar; Yukon; Denali; Juneau; Glacier Bay
Beautiful New Zealand attracted my fifth visit to hike the spectacular Rees-Dart, Gillespie Pass, Hollyford, and Milford Tracks plus more in southern South Island’s unique… Read More »2019 NEW ZEALAND: hike Rees-Dart, Gillespie Pass, Hollyford, Milford & Pororari Tracks; Mt Cook
Months of research paid off handsomely for our self-guided group of four in my first journey to Japan, 2018 October 10 – November 8. Japan… Read More »JAPAN: Tokyo, Kyoto, Alps, Matsumoto, Himeji, Nikko, Mt Fuji, Kii Peninsula, Nara’s Horyuji
Radium Hot Springs made a great base for our day hikes in less-crowded areas of the Columbia Mountains and Canadian Rockies, in a two-week vacation… Read More »2018 July: Canadian Rockies, Columbia Mtns, Bugaboo & Kananaskis hikes