Virtual Travel for a Sustainable World

Methods of finding interesting ways to experience exotic travel destinations without increasing your carbon footprint.

Blissful Camping in Suburbia

What we seek by traveling to far away places may be found in your back yard.

The Language of the LAND

Tips for reading landscapes and cultures, understanding language, and connecting to places that you visit or want to travel to.

A call for Citizen Geographers!

A call for all people to look at their world more closely, to foster better understanding and fill the void left by the decline in geographic education. Second part of a three part series of posts.

Walking the Road to Nowhere…. to Get Somewhere

A walk down a real road to Nowhere which is a metaphor for our lives. The concept of Nowhere is a social construction, so everywhere ends up being a somewhere. Ends with a call to action to make a more Sustainable World for ourselves as well as those who come after us, and a call for all of us to be Citizen Geographers.

Camping Alone: Listening as the Forest Speaks

a description recent life changes and of some of my favorite secret hiding places in Deschutes National Forest. Disclaimer…there is NO SUCH road as 7713…I don’t really want you to find it. Go find your own special place and cherish it!

Wye River

documenting change in a rural Eastern shore community over several decades and seeing the past and present through the eyes of my Grandfather