Four miles of dry lakebed and a rental car?  I couldn't resist. Just south of here , a series of cockamamie solar power experimen...

The Gold Strike trail leads down 800 vertical feet  from Highway 93 to the Colorado River, just downstream of the Hoover Dam. It's n...

Progressive-house DJ deadmau5 performs to a lively crowd.  Some of the music was excellent, other parts were repetitive and bordering o...

Joshua Trees grow in a number of places in southern Nevada, including the gentle slopes leading up to Mt Charleston, northwest of Las V...

Mummy Mountain , as seen from around 10,000ft in the Nevada winter.   Bristlecone pines populated the hillsides around this altitude, a...

Landmarks are easily visible from the air from this view from the northwest along Las Vegas Blvd.  1990s properties like the Rio, Strato...

Early snow descends on the Cascades here on the Ira Spring Trail, near the fork between the trails leading to Bandara Mountain and Mason...

The power went off the other night, and so we kindled the fireplace for both warmth and light. It was lovely, and we should do it more f...

The house where Hemingway lived in Key West for eight years in the 1930s continues to be home to six-toed descendants of a cat he was gi...

Mallory Square in Key West features street performers every evening.  Most specialize in the sort of spiel that is effective at keeping...

At the end of the road, the sun sneaks under a light cloud layer to set into the Gulf of Mexico.  This is mile zero for US route 1 in Fl...

Pint-sized Key Deer are found only in the Florida Keys.  They're a miniature version of regular white-tailed deer, adapted for li...

These two Brown Pelicans were lurking on the dock of Robbie's of Islamorada , looking to profit from unwary tourists trying to feed ...

I didn't recognize this striking mountain range when flying over it, as I've never been to this area.  Research after landing ha...

Allegedly, that's the shore of Lake Serene extending off to the horizon.  It was quite foggy right up through to this elevation of ...