Take a Walk with Birkenstock

As a kid, I avidly read the books of the Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl. His two books Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku dealt with the original settlement and mysteries of Easter Island. ...

With the increased popularity of automobile touring in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, roadside attractions popped up all over the country. They were built to entice you to pull over and spend money in som...

Two of my favorite silent movie stars were born in Kansas, Buster Keaton and Louise Brooks. Buster's birth story, as told by his father, may or may not be truthful. Buster's parents were part of a ...

Often when we travel, we are overly concerned with our destination. We are so eager to get there, we miss the in between things. Sometimes they can be as rewarding as our destination. Every now and...

San Francisco is famous for its eclectic neighborhoods, fabulous restaurants, cable cars and the usual tourist sites, but it's also home to a series of wonderful hiking trails. Certainly, the city ...

Driving through the Midwest you encounter giant wind turbines, taller than the Statue of Liberty, pumping electricity into the grid. One hundred years ago, and even more ubiquitous, were the smalle...

The town of Winterset, Iowa is part of greater metropolitan Des Moines. However, with a population around 5,300 people, the town definitely has a rural feel to it. The farmland surrounding the to...

In the words of Georgia O'Keeffe, Palo Duro Canyon "is a burning, seething cauldron, filled with light and color." It is most certainly hot in the summertime, an extra 10 degrees hotter than tem...

The large, glossy, black Chihuahuan raven in our photo is a bit of an interloper, a tourist like us humans in White Sands National Park. The raven is a common site throughout the desert Southwes...