Recovering with a sack full of jewels

Last week I was on assignment during the state of the city address and tweaked my back. The usually intrepiding was put on hold until this week when Natalie and I left of New York to visit family during the holiday’s.

We left my parents cabin in the Adirondacks with my good friend Joe at 6 [...]

Some places are just batty

On a recent trip to Austin, TX for a journalism conference, I found 1.5 million bats living in the bustling city.
No, I didn’t go walking around the streets for five days counting – they all came at once.
The “Congress Street Bats” as they have to come to be known live under … you guessed it [...]

A new friend in Bolinas (Part 1)

Underneath a vast and starry sky, Captain and I rolled through the hills of  Mt. Tamalpais. With a jittery stomach from the long evening’s drive, I looked over at Captain who popped his head up and gazed at a fog filled valley below us that was lit by a bright autumn moon.

Deer danced along the [...]