After 8,000 or so miles living on the road (honestly I lost count), I finally made it to a park I have always wanted to see — Glacier National Park. Glacier covers a large area of the northern part of Montana, and a little bit of Canada, and has some of the most beautiful vistas, […]
On The Road: Something In The Way in Aberdeen
I woke up after a strange night of sleep in my car overlooking the Columbia River emptying out into the Pacific. Across the River I could see Astoria, Oregon, a city I unwittingly passed through in the middle of the night in search of somewhere to crash once I went over the long bridge into […]
On The Road: Saguaro National Park
I thought my troubles of having no air conditioning in my car were over once I entered the arid New Mexico temperature, but I was far from any relief. As I got into Arizona the heat was unlike anything I had experienced before. The smell of rotten eggs emanated from my cooler along with the […]
Jack Kerouac’s Rules For Writing Translated Into Photography
Jack Kerouac wrote the BELIEF & TECHNIQUE FOR MODERN PROSE, a 30-rule blueprint for writing that is more than a check list on how to approach writing — it’s a meditation and philosophy for an artist or creative. Rumor has it that these rules were nailed to the wall in Allen Ginsberg’s hotel room in […]
On The Road: The Land of Enchantment
The first time I passed through New Mexico I was in a hurry. The second time I was coming from a blizzard that marooned me in Amarillo, Texas for a few days that kept me in a hotel room eating beef jerky and drinking sink water. Both times I was more than happy to see […]
Avoiding the Mirror: 5 Reasons I Went Mirrorless
The benefits of shooting with a mirrorless camera has been a subject covered extensively for the last few years by blogs, magazines, photographers, etc., so I don’t plan on droning on about the usual suspects as to why my camera is so great. However, after being on the road with one lens, one camera, one […]
The Connoisseurs: Upcoming Book Project
Oftentimes we glance at a stranger and assume who or what they may be. Looks are often deceiving, and some of our assumptions are far from who that person is. We are all in this world floating around in a fishbowl, trying our best to avoid pitfalls, strangers, and anything we perceive as foreign. But […]
On The Road: Tucumcari and Route 66
The road to the Southwest was paved with mosquitoes, humidity that made my clothes stick to me, and no way of cooling down because my AC compressor took a shit in Florida. I drove through the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana and Texas before I felt any relief from the endless moisture that suffocated me […]
What Kind of Traveler Are You?
Well, I took a quiz on Buzzfeed to find out what kind of traveler I am… Intrepid: You touch down and immediately start scanning the horizon for peaks, waves or timberlines. Your best experience of a city is when you’re looking down at it from a tall peak, or toasting your exploits at the end […]
On The Road: The Florida Keys
90 miles to Cuba, and the sun was melting my bald head as we waited in line to get our picture taken at the Southernmost Point buoy in Key West. This is literally the end of the line, and when you hit Key West you’ll start seeing “Mile 0” everywhere, because that’s it, there is […]