August 27, 2024
“This City is walled in on every side with towering granite mountains, some peaks shooting athwart the sky like towering domes. While hundreds of piles, peaks, steeples and domes, of all shapes possible in the distance looking like an old dilapidated City”– Emigrant journal entry from Dr. John Hudson Wayman – July Read more…
August 2, 2024
Once I settled in at the City of Rocks State Park campground, an unsettled sky darkened the distance. Thunderstorms with bolts that illuminated and crackled beautifully but worried me. I sat them out in the tent wondering if the tent was a careless place to hang out in a thunderstorm. Read more…
Wanting solitude and wanting stars, I took a couple of flights to reach the City of Rocks State Park campground in New Mexico, not to be mistaken with the City of Rocks in Idaho–which I plan to visit later in the month. In one of my most favorite states, this Read more…
September 19, 2023
When a camping spot in the coveted J-section at Hither Hills State Park opened up, I booked it for two nights knowing there wouldn’t be a better way to spend the evening on my visit back to the metro area of New York. And it would be a perfect location Read more…
September 2, 2023
With a goal of getting in Lake Ontario, we set out to Chimney Bluffs State Park. It was a glorious day that gave beautiful blue and green hues. All the more better to immerse oneself within… Trying to hold on to summer…
August 21, 2023
Though the St. George area of Utah is a busy gateway city to some of Utah’s mind-blowing national parks, there is plenty off the beaten trail and free of the summer mobs, like Snow Canyon State Park, which I happen to drive through trying to get some vegan breakfast at Read more…
August 20, 2023
Despite the all-day of trickling rain and a sky full of gray, I knew I’d see the stars in the evening. It’s not because I checked the weather, though I did. I just kind of knew. The stars had satisfied every evening I wanted to shoot them. Though I don’t Read more…
June 29, 2021
Camping at Joshua Tree National Park was like living in a gorgeous desert painting… from sunrise to sunset. To follow, a visual report from that colorful canvas. Yield. Don’t die. This tree’s name is Joshua. Butt rock Skull rock