Destination: Seattle.

A travel guide to three Pacific Coast Highway road trips over seven years.

Counterintuitively, high gas prices are good for you.

Nordstrom's excellent customer service helps avoid a dating disaster.

It's your birthday, but you're not special.

Remembering the past in Normandy and Seattle.

Experiencing an intern donut with Bill Gates.

Another Destination

Crater Lake, in the Cascade Mountains in Southern Oregon, lies in a collapsed volcanic basin.

Pacific Coast Highway.

The highway of life transition.

Another Destination

A view of Half Dome in the Yosemite Valley, seen from Glacier Point

Yosemite.

Two nostalgia-filled, cryogenically frozen national parks.

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Mountains shrouded in fog behind Refugio Lago Paine in Chilean Patagonia's Torres del Paine National Park.

Adopted by Kiwis in Chilean Patagonia.

Hiking the Torres del Paine Circuit on another family's vacation.

Michela

Skating by.

Understanding the post-feminist ethos of roller derby.

The ruins in Copán, Honduras include a Mesoamerican ballgame court.

How to win your ex-girlfriend back (in Honduras)

A Central American love story.

A cable car hangs overhead as a hiker adjusts his tent (photo by Brian Leukart)

Trekking the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Brothers tackle dangerous surge channels on the West Coast Trail.

The McKinley River with tens of braids in the distance

Accepting Wet Feet.

A harrowing attempt at crossing the McKinley River in Denali National Park, Alaska.

Bicycles sit waiting for a class (courtesy of Josh Hikes)

Bicycling to nowhere.

The peculiarity of studio cycling and Los Angeles gym culture.

New Hampshire's Cornish-Windsor Bridge, the longest two-span wooden covered bridge in the world.

Attack of the Chipmunk Serial Killer.

An unnerving drive through rustic New England to a five-year college reunion.

A happy couple at the Swan Club on Long Island

Thank God I'm mannequin-sized.

Losing a tuxedo and a friend in a single weekend isn't easy.

Santa Claus (a.k.a. Brian) dons a Santa suit on the Grand Canyon's South Kaibab Trail.

Santa Claus snowshoes the Grand Canyon, rim to rim to rim.

Brothers tackle a classic trek with magical, holiday cheer.

A sign warns trespassers at the boundary of Area 51 as security officers in a truck keep watch from a ridge.

Searching for UFOs near Area 51.

A travel guide to America's most mysterious military base.

A view of Half Dome in the Yosemite Valley, seen from Glacier Point

Living Yosemite.

After climbing Half Dome, I can't bear to leave Yosemite.

A zebra and her newborn baby stand together in the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve.

Goodman, my good man! What is that zebra doing?

Witnessing a zebra birth in Botswana, Africa.

A hiker gazes at the canyon walls of Buckskin Gulch.

Flat Stanley escapes a flash flood in Buckskin Gulch.

Hiking the world's longest Slot Canyon with a boy made of paper.

Destinations.

Kleyweg's Stads-Koffyhuis in Delft, Netherlands

Delft, Netherlands.

Gorgeous dutch girls and pretending to be happy.

Kleyweg's Stads-Koffyhuis in Delft, Netherlands

The Hague, Netherlands.

Becoming a midget.

A cable car hangs overhead as a hiker adjusts his tent (photo by Brian Leukart)

Vancouver Island, BC.

An intense rainstorm, the sun saves the day, and a slumber party.

Street signs in Thailand don't help much when you're lost

Thailand.

Looping through central and northern Thailand.

New Hampshire's Cornish-Windsor Bridge, the longest two-span wooden covered bridge in the world.

New England.

A five-year college reunion.

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