of continuous travel - from Spokane to Seattle to Los Angeles to Lima, Peru and finally  to Quito, Ecuador - I have finally settled in and ...

when I explore the west coast of South America on this upcoming Zegrahm expedition .  (I am on personal leave from the university the next ...

for my two summer expeditions with Zegrahm (see previous post) in .pdf format: Wild Alaska and the Bering Sea Best of the Russian Far E...

I will be traveling once again with Zegrahm Expeditions as their full service geology lecturer, hiking guide, Zodiac driver and photographe...

for a while now, my hectic work and summer travel schedule finally catching up with me, so I decided to take some time away from my daily bl...

my penultimate day in southern Utah the nearly-full Moon rose dramatically over the La Sal Mountains (click images to enlarge): As clouds ...

was spent in the company of this fellow (click images to enlarge): But the real focus of my attention was the deeply incised San Juan Rive...

of the deeply incised San Juan River canyon, with Monument Valley in Arizona on the distant skyline (click images to enlarge): Various lic...

was the plan as I set off on a two-day solo backpack exploration of a remote part of the Cedar Mesa in southeastern Utah.  Here I am in a ra...

is featured in my guidebook project, and so I spent a couple of days in the quest of representative images of this small and isolated park. ...

to explore a slot canyon. It's a lot like caving with all the climbing and scrambling, but without the ceiling. So following that wise...

a delightful Portuguese red wine in Lisbon after a relentless voyage for nearly a month at sea.  I am sorry I wasn't able to make more t...

is Pico del Teide , rising to a  12,198 ft (3,718 m)-high summit, on the island of Tenerife.  It's the third largest volcano in the wo...

we chugged past El Hierro early in the morning, where months before there was an ongoing submarine eruption.  Its activity has since subside...

the southward directed Canary Current , driven by the trade winds off the Azores High , as we push north to the Canary Island group.  During...