What I'm Thankful For

I’m posting this on Thanksgiving day but the truth is I’m not a big fan of our traditional Holidays and I try hard to have nothing to do with them. I’ve been hosting a Thankgiving Dinner for the last three years but I only do it as a special gift to...

Trip to the Festival of the Cranes, NM

  I’ve just arrived back in Eherenberg, AZ from my trip to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. It was an amazingly wonderful trip that I liked so much I’m already planning to go again next year. I took 4 classes and they...

My Winter Travel Plans

  (Note, If I’m not here when you visit, there is a new, much improved map to our camp at the bottom of this post) If you’ve been following the blog for long, you know my travel pans are never written in stone, they’re always written in Jello!...

Back to the Ehrenberg Camp.

This may sound strange coming from someone who grew up and lived all his life in Alaska, but going back to the desert for the winter feels so natural and right, that I think of it as coming home. There is just something about the haunting beauty of the desert that...