The Compleat Traveller

Adult bison and calf in Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Arturo de Frias Marques. Some people travel to kill the wildlife. Others tra...

  Back in February, in a post titled, Writers From Life’s Other Side  I wrote about how over the past few years I have been seeking out w...

During my all too brief five night stay in Washington DC, I managed to squeeze in a tour of the Capitol building, and I do mean squeeze...

Today I turn 66, ( Happy Birthday, Jim ). I am spending the day preparing for a house sitting stint for a home owner heading to Euro...

James Howard Kunstler is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books  The Geography ...

Matt Green’s celebratory cake (see below) In my first post for the year ( Welcome to 2012 ), I mentioned that many people have found w...

At the ripe old age of 22, and already married at just 19 years of age, Peter Jenkins was lost. Metaphorically, at least. Having grown up ...

Photo: Gregor Smith … ... So there I was, Greyhound-bussing it down the I-95 through Virginia , when I was startled out of my reverie by sig...

Click image to view full size Columbus Park Playground, New York City It was Saturday, May 10, the eve of Mother's Day 2008 (or maybe...

~ Say, "Please": Reading this story will remind you of why your mother always encouraged you as a child to say, "Please"...

Click image to view full size I encountered this massive mural on the wall of a building on the corner of Garnet Street and Smith Street ...

Click image to view full size I couldn’t resist taking a photograph of this tree, slowly devouring the Private Property sign, when I encou...

   Click here to order from Amazon.Com ~ “Away to the Great Plains of America , to that immense Western short-grass prairie now mostl...