Category Archives: Destination Spotlight

Photo essay of a particular place.

Finally! After 15 years, I saw the incredible WAVE in person. For those of you not familiar with this surreal landscape, the WAVE is the famous geological feature of Coyote Buttes in northern Arizona. In this wilderness area near Page, AZ there is no designated trail or signage along the 6 mile (round trip) route […]

Read full post »

We recently traveled through central Morocco, and spent a couple days in the Sahara Desert. Temps in July reached 107 degrees, so plans to overnight in a Berber tent quickly changed to air-conditioned accommodations in a renovated kasbah-turned-hotel. Camels, palm trees and kasbahs in this landscape set this desert apart from others we’d visited elsewhere […]

Read full post »

Spring Break. A week off from school…and her bestest friends were going to Disney. “We’re not going anywhere?” our 8 year old daughter asked incredulously. Never mind that our family vacation was coming up next month. Her disappointment only intensified when Grandma called and reminded her that this time last year we were staying at […]

Read full post »

Nordic skiing…watching the Olympics you’d almost think this sport was easy. The athletes hardly looked winded gliding along soft powdery snow, swishing past whispering pines in idyllic settings. If given the same opportunity, who wouldn’t jump at the chance to try it? Especially when the tour operator claims, “If you can walk, you can ski.” […]

Read full post »

I N F O