Travel Journal

Adventures from Around the World with a Camera

A Lonely Cabin
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A Hard Life: at Lee’s Ferry

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona

It was a lovely, early winter day - Thanksgiving Day - when I first visited the Lonely Dell Ranch. The land all around is desolate, scrub brush. I could sense the loneliness that the people who lived here must have felt.


Interior View Spanish Synagogue
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Friday in the Jewish Quarter of Prague

Prague, Czech Republic

It was a cold, Friday morning when I visited the Jewish Quarter of Prague. Over the centuries, starting in the 13th century, Jews were banned from living many places within Prague, and settled into the ghetto. Today it is thriving ...


Charles Bridge at Sunset
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A View from the Charles Bridge, Prague

Prague, Czech Republic

What is there not to love about Prague? If it was possible to sum up Prague in one location, which it isn’t, the Charles Bridge would be that location. Yet, it has a life all its own.


Prague's Old Town Square - Vibrant and Alive
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In Prague's Old Town Square

Prague, Czech Republic

Prague's Old Town Square is vibrant and a hive of activity, with people laughing and vendors in their kiosks. The Romanesque, Baroque and Gothic style buildings can make it feel like a journey back in time, 600 or 700 years. I remember the awe ...


Heidelberg Castle from Philosophers' Way
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Hello, Good Morning: on the Philosophers' Way

Heidelberg, Germany

“Guten Morgen” rang out from one of the three older ladies who passed me by on an early morning walk on the Philosopher's Way. I had just begun the walk up the steep incline.