Monthly Archives: October 2017

Those of you who have followed my travels through these journals know that I try not only to share my personal experiences but also that I try to enrich those experiences by including geology, geography, history, or any discipline I …

Lewis and Clark, the world’s shortest river (?) and becoming a Montana scofflaw. After I finished my morning in Vulcan, it was time to get back on the road and head south to the border crossing at Coutts on the …

Live long and prosper. In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme and developed meme theory – the notion that ideas are subject to evolutionary pressures similar to those found in biology. …

I picked the wrong night to stay at the Hotel Blackfoot a few kilometers south of Calgary’s town center. There wasn’t a problem with my room, the meal, or any of the service. It was the wrong night simply because …

A visit to Johnston Canyon. Named for a prospector who discovered gold there some time prior to 1910, Johnston Canyon is neither remote nor off the beaten path but it presents a different aspect than the lakes and mountains of …