POSITION: 41°23’57.2″N 73°57’58.4″W “Spring at West Point”, Ginger said, “is grey and depressing.” Sure enough, barren trees covered the hills surrounding the United States Military Academy and the cold, cloudy weather felt more like February than mid-April. Only a clutch …
Position: 54°18’39.4″N 9°40’56.9″E Friendships form the backbone of our emotional lives. Aesthetes and rock stars may argue that love is life’s spinal column. But love, like time, is fleeting. Even the most passionate relationships will fail if the parties fall …
Position: 47°35’22.4″N 122°22’47.4″W Der zwischenzeit: literally ‘the time in between’. In English we would say ‘in the meantime’. I like the literal translation. That’s where we have been for the past couple of weeks. Somewhere between here and there. Our …
Position: 45°40’46.5″N 111°02’34.9″W With the generous help of our friends Diane and Mark we spent the past month in West Seattle dog-sitting for Gus, and, at their insistence, exploring Bozeman, Montana. They sweetened the deal by letting us use their …
Position: 45°39’40.6″N 110°33’35.6″W The town of Livingston, Montana, might not exist if it weren’t for the railway and its proximity to Yellowstone National Park. As soon as the spur to North Yellowstone was finished, Livingston was on the map. Visitors …
Position: 45°20’16.6″N 110°41’31.5″W Chico Hot Springs Hotel has been in continuous service since 1900. Its white clapboard and green trim has catered to legions of holiday-makers and celebrities. Actor Jeff Bridges met his wife, Susan, there 50 years ago. Steve …
Position: 45°01’46.1″N 110°42’19.6″W In the spring of 1808, no one at Fort Raymond quite believed John Colter’s stories of boiling mudpots, seething water pools, shooting geysers and sulphurous fumaroles. Colter had just returned from a winter-long solo expedition across the …
Position: 47°36’33.8″N 122°20’30.5″W If you are short of friends, night photography is a sure-fire way of meeting people. Grab your camera and a tripod and head downtown. Once you begin setting up, people will flock to you full of curiosity. …
Position: 47°44’39.5″N 121°05’25.5″W “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Despite its 19th century gender normative syntax, there is, as in many of Nietzsche’s ideas, a kernel of truth in …
