You Must Go Here: Elephant Rocks
Natural resource PR doesn’t really reach my corner of Missouri. I suspect advertising for those ventures are more aimed at people in Kansas City and St.…
Ozarks Getaway: Eureka Springs
If you’ve never been, imagining a small-town Ozarks town is an impossible task. We fall into some mysterious imagined zone between Mayberry and Lake Wobegon–neither of…
Bluff Dwellers Cavern
It was 1925, and when Arthur Browning felt cool air welling from a low dark crack on his property, he knew that the bluff masked a…
Summer float
Language is a funny thing here in the Ozarks. Nobody uses big words. Or if you do, like me, people raise their eyebrows at you and…
Tanyard Creek Falls
My friend Hannah trekked all the way from her home in one of the most beautiful corners of the world, the Olympic Peninsula, to give our…
Here and gone
If the sequins of Vegas ever induce a headache, head into the desert north of it. Highway 95 pushes through desolate and beautiful sweeping country dotted…
Baja, aha!
Morning light on the seguaros and boulders of Catalina, Baja California.
Valley of Fire
We ran away from the Missouri winter for a few days in the desert. I loved and felt so lucky sharing a place like this with…
Gone the sun
Last week, I had to drop Jon off at the airport. He’ll be gone for most of November. I don’t mind being alone for a few…
the flying farmers 