ON a Sunday night in February, in the second-floor lounge of a West Houston Street bar called Madame X, two dozen twentysomethings sit on a bank of red velvet couches sipping cosmopolitans and highballs. As they chat amid candles and…
Our busy little beaver
A new beaver has started to build dams on the stream where our house is, and in just one week, the beaver has already significantly impacted the environment. So we set up a backyard webcam to see if we could…
Gorilla Trekking in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Gorilla Trekking in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Almost half of the planet’s remaining mountain gorillas live within the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. It’s one of only three locations left in the world where people…
Urban Farming at Wattles Community Garden
Wattles Farm started in 1975, is one of the oldest surviving community gardens in the City of Los Angeles. It was among the first gardens that started under then Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley’s initiative to use public lands for…
Hiking and Camping on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Hiking and camping in Greenland is a must for anyone who wants to visit an alien world without leaving planet Earth! My very first camping trip ever and we decide to go camping on the ice sheet in Greenland! We…
David Hockney’s Pearblossom Highway
In 1986, David Hockney created the photographic collage Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th April 1986, #2. It is a unique interpretation of his California road trip on a stretch of highway, CA 138. About David Hockney’s Pearblossom Highway The scene is not…
The Amazing Nasir al-Mulk Mosque
The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran, is among the world’s most beautiful and awe-inspiring places. Built in 1888 during the Qajar dynasty, the mosque is famously known as the “The Pink Mosque” due to its magnificent interior decoration. When…
Road trip with my dog across the United States
Los Angeles to New York and back to Los Angeles. Two 35-day road trips with my dog Felix. Instead of flying from Los Angeles to New York and then back again, like a normal human being, I decided it would…
Spinning at the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier
Tour the iconic Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier – an easy day trip from Paris. I’ve always wanted to see the Villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier in person, and I finally got the chance. It was well worth the…
Spinning in the Dry Riverbed of the Zayayndeh River – Isfahan, Iran
Here I am spinning in the now dry, due to damming and farm irrigation, Zayandeh River in Isfahan, Iran. The swan boats, sleeping, waiting for the next waters to wake them up. The Si-o-se-pol bridge, longing for its purpose, appears…