Lake Tahoe and the Desolation Wilderness

Lake Tahoe and the Desolation Wilderness

It is Central California’s mountain playground.  In the winter, skiers flock to the slopes of the Heavenly Resort.  In the summer, the lake fills with motorboats, jet skis, and kayaks, while fishermen line the shores.  The place gets packed all year long – too packed...
Big Sur

Big Sur

A thousand-foot drop to a rocky shore where spires of rocks jut up out of the crashing waves… The Santa Lucia Mountains tower above the Pacific Ocean and disgorge streams of water that cascade down the cliffs… McWay Falls …to mingle with the largest body...
Pinnacles National Park

Pinnacles National Park

Amid the rolling russet hills of the Cienega Valley of Central California, a gaping wound slices through the landscape—a gash amid the mountain tops, a scar across the countryside—as if the earth itself were cleft in two by the mighty stroke of a Norse god’s battle...
Castle Menzies

Castle Menzies

There can be no better place to start a romp through history than at a Medieval Scottish castle, right? This one was of particular interest to me.  It is a fairly obscure castle, built in the 16thCentury in the highlands of Scotland, and served as the...