Western U.S. and Canada August and September 2017

More of the tour According to the NPS, these are the notable distinctive features that set the mountains of Glacier NP apart from the rest of the Rockies: There is the relatively flat lying Lewis Thrust sheet from which the …

Although I was in no danger on the east side of the park, when I share the photos I took at Logan Pass, you’ll see that the post title isn’t entirely hyperbole. Among the last things I did yesterday was …

The junkyard museum There’s a scene about 20 minutes before the end of the 1983 cult movie Eddie and the Cruisers where the main character Eddie Wilson, frustrated by a music label’s rejection of his magnum opus, drives his girlfriend Joann …

An unplanned stop Looking at the photos in the Ewam Garden you can see that the morning had quite a hazy start. I didn’t know the severity of the problem but I did know that traveling mainly north but also …

Ewam in the Buddhist tradition In many ways, Buddhism is among the world’s most flexible religions. It’s based on the teachings of Siddhārtha Gautama who spent much of his life in what is now Uttar Pradesh (an area of northeastern …