Places

Places Osaka Osaka's neon and food, kabuki and taiko, and a day trip out to Nara's deer (and the region's monkeys). January 21, 2023 Places Kyoto Kyoto in the quiet of winter: temples, torii gates, and the imperial grounds without the cherry-blossom crowds. January 19, 2023 Places Two weeks in Japan A two-week Japan trip: the Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka triangle by bullet train, then four spoiling powder days in Niseko. January 15, 2023 Places Tokyo Tokyo: the fish market at dawn, secondhand-lens hunting, a world-class bartender, and a January sumo tournament. January 15, 2023 Places Hiking out of Carlsbad Caverns The last stop of the Texas road trip: hiking out of Carlsbad Caverns the hard way and feeling exactly how deep 750… December 30, 2022 Places Guadalupe Peak, the top of Texas Bagging Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas, on a characteristically windy but smooth day. December 29, 2022 Places Fort Davis under dark skies A West Texas road-trip stop in Fort Davis: dark-sky night photos under the McDonald Observatory and a cold high-desert hike. December 28, 2022 Places A Mt. Whitney attempt, undertrained A late-October Whitney attempt on a leftover permit, undertrained and a day off the redeye from New York. October 29, 2022 Places WTC graduation in Joshua Tree The WTC graduation trip in Joshua Tree: off-trail to a desert summit, then a windstorm that sorted the well-pitched tents from the… October 22, 2022 Places Mt. Muah, just an overnight A WTC overnight up Mt. Muah on the southern Sierra's Kern Plateau, and the truth that one-nighters are their own kind of… October 9, 2022