Scott and Me at Mount Rushmore! I Have Visited All 50 States When I was a kid my mom and dad would take my sister and me on road trips. I remember at different times driving with my family from our home in Texas to Maine or Colorado or Michigan and many other...
Wildflowers Grow in the Ash of Mount Saint Helens Opportunity to Make Pictures of Mount Saint Helens Recently had I opportunity to again visit, and make pictures of Mount Saint Helens and was heartened by what I saw. In a testament to time, natural processes and a...
Getting to Oventic After an hour-long hellish cab ride from San Cristobal de las Casas, through the spectacular central highlands of Chiapas, we finally arrived at the autonomous Zapatista community of Oventic. This place isn’t on maps, the residents are...
Riding Horses into the Cloud Forest at Rancho La Escondida When my friends Chris and Rachel Larsen invited me to go along with them to meet someone who had a ranch deep in Zapatista country near Teopisca, Chiapas I was intrigued. I had driven through Zapatista...
Only ten minutes from the center of San Cristobal the preserve also protects 100 hectares of oak forests. There are great walking trails with beautiful views of the city, an amphitheater, beautiful works of modern sculpture and a unique greenhouse designed to...
(Update June 2018 – Atalaia, Portugal – After I left Mexico, Wes and I kept in touch and, as travelers often do, we met up again. This time in June 2016, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We continued our friendship as if no time had passed and had a few more crazy...
I try to keep safety in mind everywhere I go. I lock doors, I use hotel safes wherever possible and try not to carry too much that anyone would want that could make me a target. I am not paranoid, and I go almost everywhere, but I use common street sense. One area...
It is only a short distance from San Cristobal de las Casas to Puerto Arista on the Pacific coast of Chiapas but these are definitely two different worlds. When my somewhat insane friend Wes Nations and I left San Cristobal it was in the mid-50s with a little bit of...
