Reopening this summer after a two-year seismic retrofit, The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Colombia should be on your list of places to visit in the greater Vancouver, Canada area. No pun intended, but I could have been one of the first people to visit this homage to First Nations culture after […]
As part of my adventures, I like grand national parks, horizon-filling national monuments, and beautiful open spaces of all kinds. These places highlight nature in all of its wide-open magnificence. Yet, I also love the smaller scale, more detailed, intimate gardens I visit. In that sense, the Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, Canada, surprised me […]
In this last of four posts about the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, we see a video of another of its treasures. There are colorful, natural cliffs in the otherwise desert flatlands of America’s Southwest known as Vermilion Cliffs. They were designated a National Monument in 2000, one of our most recent and undeveloped frontiers. […]