Geotripper

  Devils Garden in Arches National Park What is an adventure anymore?  I ask my students to describe the meaning in one of my offbeat assign...

  That was exciting. I live in the Central Valley of California. The valley is famously boring for a number of reasons, and one of the good ...

I've always been fascinated by islands. I visit the Hawaiian Islands every chance I get, and I am literally haunted by the vast expan...

What is the strangest landscape you've ever explored? That is, the kind of place that makes you think that this just isn't part of...

 It's pretty amazing the places that didn't get made into national parks. It's pretty amazing that tens of millions of people ...

The Basin and Range province is one of the largest geological provinces in North America, covering all of Nevada, parts of eastern Californi...

Hitting the road tomorrow, and much looking forward to getting away for a few days. It may seem like I do a lot of traveling, and I have b...

Although there is some geological discussion going on here, this series of photos is really an excuse to share an extraordinary sunset tha...