This is a photo from the Chisos Mountains area of Big Bend National Park in Southwestern Texas. The gap in the mountains is called "The Windows" and it is Mexico you see in the distance. See more pictures from the Chisos Mountains here.

This is a photo I took in December of 1999 from the tour boat that took us to the Statue of Liberty. I am headed back to New York on June 6th.

Welcome to my blog! I, hope to update this at least a couple times a week with short articles and travel photos. I figures everyone else has a blog why not me! This is not intended to take the place of my website, just work in addition to it. I was limited by the type of program I use to publish my site, no blog function was available on it.

Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, August 2005

I left Port Angeles, Washington early in the morning under cloudy and rainy skies. I had hoped to drive the winding road up to Hurricane Ridge, but after looking at the conditions, I decided to cut my losses and head for Mount Rainier National Park, where the weather radar showed my amiable conditions. I'd driven about 30 miles east of Port Angeles when I heard a weather report on the radio that said that conditions at Hurricane Ridge were mostly sunny and cool, with no rain. I found this hard to believe since I was still driving in a pretty constant mist. Having driven all this way to see the Hurricane Ridge, which most people considered a highlight of Olympic National Park, I decided to turn around and give it a shot. Upon entering the park, I stopped at a Heart o' the Hills Ranger Station, which confirmed what the radio had reported, the weather at the top of the mountain was much better than it was down at sea level.

I wasn't disappointed, either. I drove through mist and a soft rain, but the higher up I went, the clearer it got. By the time I'd driven the seventeen miles to the top, the skies has turned a brillian blue, as you can see in the picture below. Hurricane Ridge is a 5240 feet above sea level and provides brilliant views of the mountains to the sout and Vancouver Island to the north. I never got a real good look at Vancouver Island and Victoria, British Columbia's capital because the fog and mist I had driven through still partially hung over the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the body of water which seperates Washington State and Canada.

Don't forget to check out the rest of my pictures of Hurricane Ridge here and here.