Nature / Off-the-beaten-path / Strenuous / USA / Wandering

One of the Best Mountain Ranges You’ve Never Heard Of

Right in the back yard of the place where I’m housesitting sits the Wallowa Mountains. Literally. The entrance to a state park is four houses away. I go walking in there almost daily. I have hiked 9,000 feet up into the mountains, ending up well above the snow line. They...

Nature / Off-the-beaten-path / USA / Wandering

Evil Kneivel tried to jump THIS?!

Until I came through Idaho and eastern Oregon, what I knew about the Snake River Canyon was that Evil Kneivel tried to jump over it on a rocket-powered motorcycle in the 1970s. Having now ridden my own motorcycle along some 100 miles of the Snake River, I can say

History / Off-the-beaten-path / USA / Wandering

Oregon Ghost Towns (part 3)

Of course all these photos from the ghost towns I’ve been visiting were originally taken digitally and in color. However I Photoshopped them to be black-and-white, sepia, silver toned or sometimes with strange colors because the subject matter seems to demand it.

History / Modes of Transport / Off-the-beaten-path / USA / Wandering

Oregon Ghost Towns (part 2)

Ghost towns aren’t just about the old, dilapidated buildings. For reasons unknown, people sometimes left their entire lives behind. Including cars, trucks, furniture and many other things. Here are some of the cars and trucks I found while touring the ghost towns.

Bucket List / Nature / Off-the-beaten-path / USA

The Badlands aren’t so bad after all

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...