Standing small among giants in Yosemite

“None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.” Entering Yosemite Continue reading →

In Love with Loreto

The roads aren’t busy in Loreto, a small city on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. In fact, the town boasts just one set of traffic lights. And looking around, that may Continue reading →

Celebrity hunting TMZ style

The Celebritus Americanus (or American celebrity) is a creature hunted, studied, dissected and eventually discarded. In my tin can dons their safari gear and joins experienced trackers, TMZ, on a tour through Continue reading →

Universal appeal: The show biz Capital of LA

Lights! Camera! Action! Universal Studios Hollywood is an LA icon. Since it first opened as a studio (complete with tours for just 25 cents) in 1915, and then as a Continue reading →

Las Vegas: enjoy it, but not too much

I do not fear Las Vegas. Nor do I loathe it. But having just lost fifty bucks on the roulette table, and already feeling a little worse for wear, I’m Continue reading →

Take the next exit to Disney’s Cars Land

Two cars are tied heading into the final race of the season. Down the stretch they come! It’s too close to call! Too close. It’s a hot summer’s day in Continue reading →

Just another Disney day

Disneyland Resort: where everyone can be a princess (or famous vermin, at the very least). “I feel like a princess,” said a little traveler in the lift this morning. In a Continue reading →

Caught between the moon and New York City

You are on top of the most magnificent building in the greatest city in the world, my audio guide, Tony, tells me. Looking across Manhattan, with the sun setting on Continue reading →

Happily lost at Maze by Gordon Ramsay

I’ll admit it. I’m not usually big on haute cuisine. I normally prefer the crowded surface of a bustling restaurant to the swept tables of a fine-dining establishment. But, I Continue reading →

When a picture paints 318 words

If ever you find yourself floating on ancient waters to a place where color and texture collide; if ever the sun sets perfect on a day beautiful; if the cacti Continue reading →

A dish called Sonora

They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Over four days in Sonora, Mexico, I lost my heart three square meals a day. At first, attempting Continue reading →

Ghosts and spirits: Alamos in a glass

We return from the streets of Alamos, Sonora, feet-weary but not ready to put to bed the spirits that have taken hold of our bodies. Throats dry, we reach for a Continue reading →