No, I’m not talking about clouds or coconut-flavored cotton candy, I’m talkin’ ’bout snow. While we might get some snow in the San Diego mountains, to get the good stuff you’ve got to head north. Through the glass and aluminum robot…
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On Foot
I can only understand a place by walking it. When traveling I’ve got to get out of the car and strike out across open land, feel the ground under my feet and see what plants brush my legs, hear the…
Scotland – Child Harbat and Her Animals
This girl loves her animals. All throughout Scotland she found creatures, wild and domesticated, that she wanted to befriend. No fear of slugs or caterpillars has she, but an unreasonable one of bees and a reasonable one of horses and…
Wild Harris, Distant Lewis
Of all the places I visited in Scotland, the Outer Hebridean islands of Harris and Lewis may have been my favorite. Adrift in the North Atlantic, these two isles are wild and remote like nothing you’ve experienced. Mountains and boulders…
Scotland – Details
Grand vistas can introduce you to a place but details tell the story. The more I travel the more I take pictures of small things, textures, colors, the things that make up a place. Here then, a few of my…
Scotland – The First of Many
For the past two weeks I’ve been in Scotland with my mother and daughter, a three-generation journey to reconnect with our roots and each other. Instead of a chronological travelogue I’d like to offer up snippits, collections of photos and…
Climate Change is Here!
Everyone can break out the shorts and t-shirts: climate change has arrived. “Ha ha,” snort the East Coasters who are still entombed in gray snow. But it’s true, the “norm” of weather doesn’t exist any more. If change is the…
Posted in Gardening, Travel Tagged with: beach, climate change, Eocene, san francisco, travel, warmth, weather
Border Crossings, Beers, and Giant Meat Cylinders
Boy are things changing in Mexico! Here in San Diego the craft food and beer scene is heating up and stimulating the foodie culture south of the border in Tijuana. Craft breweries are popping up, stylish high-quality eateries, and places…
Exploring
The longest distance between two points is the path taken by children. This is how boring I am as a parent: I don’t want to fall in the mud. I don’t want to sit on a tree covered with fire…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego, Travel Tagged with: CH, Derek Noakes, expeditions, exploring, kids, number two, parenting
First Camping Trip
There is nothing like sleeping out in the wilderness after a day on foot and dinner by the fire. Child Harbat and I went camping recently and she’s now an official Camper. What is like hiking and camping in the…
