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This is one busy summer. Less than a week ago we came back from a three-week-long trip to Yellowstone and surrounding national parks, and t...

One of my favorite waterfalls in the Bay Area is Alamere Falls , by some considered to be in top ten most beautiful waterfalls in the world...

I have followed my own advice from the previous post and this weekend I spent exploring several waterfalls of Whiskeytown/Mt. Shasta area....

There are many reasons why I've been terribly inconsistent in my blogging. The key one is that I'm trying to travel as much as poss...

The wise John Muir once wrote "The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts...

To Anil the highlight of our trip to Big Island was the night swim with Manta Rays . To me it was seeing an active volcano. The most active...

The full moon over Big Island was amazingly bright last night. So bright that I needed to bring down the exposure to 1/500 of a second (a...

Last weekend we spent in Hawaii snorkeling, beach bumming, whale- and dolphin-watching, hiking active volcano, and–most awesomely–taking a ...

Though probably not in winter :-)

This is how my home and backyard look from up above. Photo twitted from orbit by Chris Hadfield Isn't the Bay Area stunning...

I've been to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park twice: once in summer and once in winter. Contrary to all the other places in the Sou...

If you want to escape from civilization, look no further. Valley of the Gods , mere 40 miles north-east of the world-famous, tourist-infest...

Goosenecks State Park offers a one-of-a-kind scenic view of the meandering San Juan River and the deep canyon painstakingly cut by the riv...