I admit I was wrong. Alighting in the stark and featureless environment of the airport made me wonder if I […]

Best-laid plans and all that. The minute my head hit the pillow last night, I was asleep. Although my guesthouse […]

While the Sagas are famous within the literary tradition of Iceland, the island has continued to produce outstanding authors and […]

The plane dipped into the thick cloud layer and the pilot intoned — in both Icelandic and English — “Welcome […]

I spent my last night in Alaska in my cozy car trunk bed.  I felt it was only proper to […]

It was hard to leave lovely Denali this morning.  The park, the people I met, everything was such a soul-stirring […]

“The sun was just coming up over the mountains–blood red and cold. I felt as if I was standing in […]

“We need the tonic of wildness … At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all […]

Since my spur-of-the-moment decision to visit Whittier had turned out so well, I decided to do another jaunt – turning […]

Today I take my leave of Whittier and head back Anchorage way en route to Denali and Fairbanks. As I […]