A refreshing trip to another region of France… …made less refreshing by the second unprecedented heat wave this year. However most of my day was spent in my rental car,…

This is a bigger part of the country than I remembered. I always had the idea the Great Plains took up most of the land area of the U.S., but…

But first a trip into Pennsylvania Dutch country for Janet’s battery. Off the turnpike and through farmland different from any I’ve seen in the U.S., because I’ve never been through…

Oregon has two small mountain ranges made of pale granite, surrounded by massive flows of dark basalt. Yes, an artist has decided to use this as a metaphor for a…