Glass Maze Every jumbled pile of person

Bayard and Pete Go North

This May, my friends Bayard and Pete embarked on a month-long trip from New Mexico to Alaska. They drove the entire way — Albuquerque to Deadhorse — in a seasoned old RV named Bessie, and, best of all, chronicled the whole journey on their blog: Bayard and Pete Go North! Here’s their description of the [...]

Flower/Crater

The Pious Tree

(from the Hawaii trip)

The Alaska Diaries

So, faced with a giant design document that needs to get written, a backlog of stories that need to get polished up and sent out, and a mountain of chores that need to get done, I’ve just spent the last hour … consolidating all my Alaska posts into a single document. Sigh. Anyway. I’m calling [...]

Alaska Trip, Day 7: The End

The first thing you notice about the airport at Anchorage is the taxidermy: stuffed elk heads with glass eyes peer down from the walls; stuffed wolves with bared fangs guard the bottom of escalators; giant stuffed polar bears in glass enclosures rear up on their hindlegs, brandishing three-inch claws. Alaskans clearly love the natural world, [...]