Interlude

To break up the stream of Greek ghost towns on this blog, here’s some other, more random, sights we got to see on our visit. Greece has always been a seafaring nation, and has myriad shipwrecks to show for it. Not far from Athens, the pitched-over hull of the Mediterranean Sky lies a stone’s throw … Continue reading Interlude

The Badlands

Sometimes, in the rougher stretches of life, the exact right thing to do can be setting yourself an arbitrary, foolish, and daunting task. Times for me were not good in the weeks leading up to the recent road trip out west. When one of my friends insisted we should make the Badlands a stop on … Continue reading The Badlands

Ecuador the Beautiful

As much as I enjoyed photographing the birds in the last post, I fell in love with their home, the cloud forest. This is a type of forest found in tropical and subtropical mountain ranges, at altitudes high enough to plunge the entire landscape into the clouds. This keeps the forest very humid and creates … Continue reading Ecuador the Beautiful