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Torres del Paine
The plane lands. It is winter in Atlanta. But that was 18 hours ago. Overnight we have flown clear of winter, over spring and even much of the summer. There is the feel of Autumn here in Patagonia. We are in the town of Punta Arenas, Chile. It is about as…
Alpine Summer
Vanoise National Park Hiking the French Alps In the morning we set out from Pralognan. The village sits in a forested valley surrounded by peaks of gray granite. It’s a two hour drive from the stylish avenues of Geneva. The Latvian fellow who drove suggested the…
The Atacama Desert
Trekking the Atacama The Highs and Lows of the Chilean Desert Cliff Lancey My friend and I were sipping wine beneath an Algarrobo tree when a tall fellow crossed the courtyard and introduced himself. His name was Wilhelm, a German Peruvian from Argentina. He…
Iceland Trek
My Trek in Iceland The sleet made progress slow. Ahead a white light flickered atop a pole sticking from a pile of rocks. It was a beacon of some sort. Hope flutters in my breast. Maybe it’s the top. Maybe we can trudge through the wind, sleet and snow, but at…
Beartooth Mountains
Phil and I were talking about age and elevation, as we climbed over the rocks to Clover Leaf Lake, at ten thousand feet. The first day of backpacking was hard. We hiked all day. At Martin Lake, I was stumbling with fatigue. It was eight miles, the last couple a…
Tuckermans Ravine, New Hampshire
There aren’t too many places like it, at least here in the Northeast. Up and down Route 93 are manicured ski areas, with trails cut like avenues down forested slopes. But for wide-open powder skiing, the standard, at least east of the Wasatch, is Tuckerman Ravine. …
Fenway Postcard
Wheeler, my thirteen year old, approached me. He looked distressed. “They won’t let Lydia through security.” We were at the airport, waiting for a flight to Massachusetts to visit my father. I followed him around the corner, and there was Lydia. We’ve got a…
Gulf Shores Postcard
During Spring Break we went to the beach. Our beach is in Gulf Shores, Alabama. We have a ground floor condo unit, with a pleasant stretch of lawn in front, beyond which is nothing but blue ocean. We like the sand, the seafood, the sunsets. Wheeler, our…
Huckabee Revolution
The Associated Press/February 6, 2008 HUCKABEE AND THE EVANGELICAL REVOLUTION Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee’s recent primary victories across the South have brought new focus to the long-simmering debate between science and religion. The former…
Hip-Hop Summit
With a wife and kids and work to do, I miss most of the seminal cultural events of our times. One is happening this weekend. In Philadelphia, Temple University is hosting the Turn Up the Vote National Hip Hop Summit. It’s sponsored by something called the Hip-Hop…