United States of America

Watching Polar Bears in the Inupiat Village of Kaktovik on the Edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Backpacking Adventures with Grizzly Bears in the Wilderness of Denali National Park, Alaska

Hiring a Float Plane and Being Dropped Off Into the Kodiak Island Wilderness for a Week with the World’s Largest Bears

Channeling the Ghost of Doc Holiday in Tombstone, and Visiting the Great Deserts of Organ Pipe Cactus and the Navajo Nation

Travels in My Home State

Swimming with Wild Manatees in Central Florida

Hiking the Kalalau Trail into the Napali Coast Wilderness During the Winter Storm Season-Truly One of the Wildest and Most Beautiful Places on Earth

The Land of 10,000 Lakes and Where I Grew Up

Backpacking Glacier National Park to Old Man Lake and Dawson Pass

Dwindling Towns, Juke Joints Playing Live Blues Music and the Swamps of the Bayou

Multiple Day Trips to Visit Friends Living in NYC, Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center Memorial and Natural History Museum

Climbing Redwood Trees-The World’s Tallest Trees

African Kingdom of Oyotunji and Other Highlights of a Weekend Trip to South Carolina and Georgia

Climbing Angels landing in Zion and Cave Camping Next to Pueblo Ruins in Bears Ears National Monument

Old Appalachian Towns, Civil War History & Held at Gun Point at a Civil War Battlefield

My Daughter’s First Camping Trip in the Temperate Rainforests of Olympic National Park

Yellowstone National Park in Winter and Western Montana