I have seen the World Pyrotechnic Championships in Toronto. (Yes, there is such a thing and it’s held in a different city every year.) Seeing fireworks over an alpine lake surrounded on all sides by soaring mountain peaks easily rivals that.
Bucket List / Nature / Off-the-beaten-path / USA
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published July 3, 2018 · Last modified July 2, 2018
On my way across the country, I rode 3,100 miles and passed through 14 states and four time zones. Ever since I saw photos of it in a magazine back in the 1980s, I have been dying to visit Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Before white settlement, the Lakota...
Art / Off-the-beaten-path / USA
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published May 10, 2018 · Last modified May 7, 2018
The farm I’ve been babysitting for the past month has a very small man-made pond in back. The pond is roughly the size and shape of a swimming pool yet is home to an incredible number of frogs. They sing pretty much 24 hours a day. Frogs in France sound...
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published May 2, 2018 · Last modified April 26, 2018
Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Wandering
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published April 30, 2018 · Last modified April 26, 2018
Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Sedate
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published April 24, 2018 · Last modified April 8, 2018
