While everybody else seemed to be tooting their vuvuzelas over the World Cup, I was enjoying La Fiesta De San Fermin. This is hard to ex...

The day before WesterCon we took a tour of Jet Propulsion Laboratory . It’s Space City, California -- with lots of huge liquid nitrogen ta...

West of Phoenix, there were lots of shredded tires beside the I-10. Did I see condors hovering overhead? or just big-ass vultures? Why were...

No one thinks that there is anything mysterious about the banana. Just about everyone likes them. They taste good, and it’s so convenient ...

My dad recently died of a heart attack. I like to think he went like a brave bull -- charging the cape, tearing off a chunk of the matad...

We left Utah as it was in the process of being transformed from John Wayne’s Texas to Pixar’s Mars . A few days earlier, we saw a red sig...

Shortly after “Hindenburg’s Vimana Joyride” went online in DayBreak Magazine , I was back in Moab, Utah, checking in to the Inca Inn, where ...

We stayed at the America’s Best Value Inn of Tropic, Utah while exploring Bryce Canyon. I kept thinking, Tropic of Utah -- what a great ...

Hoodoos -- according to the Free Dictionary , “a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock” -- abound in Bryce Canyon . The imagination ...

I may never make it to Mars, but I can always visit Utah. Zion National Park gets Martian right away, then takes you to unexpected place...