With Scotland‘s summer travel season now in full swing, it may seem premature to be looking ahead to autumn and winter. But this is the exact right time to let us start planning your off-season independent custom travels, so we can get you booked into those much sought after lodgings with the “wow” experiences to match. […]

For the five years when our two kids were between the ages of 8 and 17, our family had one sacred summer ritual: climbing Half Dome in California’s Yosemite National Park. The George Family Summer Half Dome Hike became one of those cherished family rites that will bind us throughout our lives. But the beginning […]

This June day, I spent the morning squatting in a clearing just off Upper Terrace Road at Mammoth Hot Springs in the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park, hand-digging Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens). A hermit thrush serenaded me as I worked, its fluting song echoing through the nearby grove of Douglas-fir trees: first a long clear […]