The Upcycled Tent Dopp Kit is made from all upcycled materials, except the zipper. It is light-weight and compact, and has the feel of a tent, since it is made from ‘the [...]

Mono Lake is an ancient, saline lake in Central California. It is a bird sanctuary and has been the subject of many ecological battles over the last decade. (This is an HDR [...]

The Amateur Traveler is the first podcast I ever listened to on a consistent basis, and it is my favorite podcast. I enjoy listening because it allows me to travel to many [...]

I’m a geography geek. When I was young, I would spend long driving hours on family road trips with the road atlas, pouring through the maps, looking for unique locations. When I [...]

The lighthouse was the last manned lighthouse on Lake Michigan. It was manned for over 100 years and only lost it’s keeper in 1983. I just looked it up on wikipedia and [...]

One of the oldest inhabited cities in Israel, the old walled city of Acre sits on the Northern End of Haifa Bay. Like many other cities in the Holy Land, it has [...]

The oldest maps of Washington D.C. called the building on this spot the President’s Palace, but it has long since simply been known by its paint job. This picture of the Whitehouse [...]

This photo shows the Tombs on the Mount of Olives. The Jews believe that these people will be the first to be brought to heaven when the apocalypse happens.

I grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s- a child of the Cold War. I’m sure my experience was different that that of people who lived through the Cuban Missile [...]