About 28 uninterrupted hours on two planes, three trains, and one automobile, and I am in my room in France. At five o’clock on the morning of June 2nd, my…

After doing next to nothing yesterday, I feel as if I’ve done a big adventure today. I am sitting in my camp chair facing the lake, of which I do…

  We’re in the Blue Ridge Mountains! Woke up this morning in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, not sticky with sweat! The no-see-um’s biting my ankles, and the occasional, disconcerting bang…

The Salton Sea is always described as a monumental engineer’s mistake. Over a hundred years ago, somebody accidentally diverted all of the Colorado River into a dry basin in California.…