Travel Essays
Editor's Note: Teddy Hayes is taking a break from studying Economics and Spanish at Montana State University. He is one month in to a six month stay in Ecuador where he is studying Spanish, volunteering and traveling. At the moment, he is bunking with family friends who are spending more…
For many families, summer is a time of transition. Family schedules and structures take on new shapes and sizes. With September on the horizon, will there be more school supplies to buy? Or will the nest soon be emptying? This year, the warm summer breeze reminds me of an adventure…
I've made a moose mistake. My resident animal expert has pointed out a small detail I seemed to overlook last weekend. In an earlier post; I wrote about a special moment I had observed after I spent more than an hour admiring one larger and one smaller moose from the…
The sound disturbed me on some primal level. Deep, mournful, incessant. Mother cows calling out for their young calves. Separated by fencing, the pairs would not be reunited until the day’s branding ritual was completed. I remember that Saturday like it was yesterday, the day I attended my first…
"Ok, everyone. Look at me and smile!” I snapped a picture of Tim, Katie and Matt standing at the exact gate where the bulls would be released during the upcoming San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain. “Everyone ready?” asked Tim. “Yes.” And thus our trek down the cobblestoned route of…
Lately, I have been thinking about and discussing with friends, family, and colleagues, the delicate balance we seek when managing risk, fear, preparation, wisdom, loss, knowledge and exploration. Perhaps our formula is different when the situation involves our children. Perhaps not. In recent weeks, I was in Hawaii with my…
I have always wanted to visit one of the 10th Mountain Division huts tucked high within Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Named to honor the men of the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army who trained during World War II in Central Colorado, the system of 29 backcountry huts are connected…
An Essay: Gardener in the Wild The San Jacinto Mountains, above Palm Springs, California, shoot up 10,804 feet from the desert without, as one writer has it, the geologic fanfare of foothills. I'd come in January to one of its mountain towns, Idyllwild, to try to recover some shred of…
The birth of empathy between siblings is a beautiful thing to witness. One of the many unexpected joys of living abroad is watching the way such a powerful experience changes your children. For the better. Kids who travel together, learn to rely on each other in a deeper way than life…
I learned about the basic American hotel room from Howard Johnson in the 1960’s. Two double beds with back boards bolted to the wall, two fake oil paintings above said backboards, a stand in between the beds with a lamp and phone, a standard bathroom, and a TV. The last…
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