There was no water falling when I visited the Rubio Canyon Falls, which serves me right for visiting a waterfall in the August desert that is Los Angeles. But, as I found out later, mother nature has reopened this waterfall after human beings closed it down for 6 years.      After hiking the Mt. [...]

This is [Part 2] of this story: Please visit Hiking Los Angeles: The Bridge to Nowhere [Part 1]      My toes cramped in the cold water, and the current forced itself between the soles of my feet and the sandals. The cold water surged, splashing against my waist, as I lent into the current. I [...]

     In the mountains north of Los Angeles there’s a bridge. It’s a graceful curving bridge, built for puttering cars before the first atomic bomb was ever dropped. But no cars have ever driven across this bridge, and it sits, lost and alone, five miles from the nearest road, beside one of the largest metropolitan [...]

- Hiking Abandoned Mt. Lowe, From Bottom and Top –      Section Two: From the top of the Mountain to the Alpine Tavern.      The Mt Lowe railway once reached to the summit of the mountain just a mile from the Mt. Wilson Observatory high in the San Gabriel Mountains.      To reach the high [...]

[Now that the Angeles Crest Highway has been reopened, and is possible to drive to the entrance of the second part of this hike. **BUT** When I visited this hike in early June 2011 THE TRAIL WAS STILL CLOSED. If you want to hike a trail that starts from a similar spot, I recommend Mount [...]

Once upon a time, there were two train lines that terminated in Exmouth. One is still in use and travels from Exeter to Exmouth through Lympstone. The other one came through Budleigh Salterton to Exmouth. The branch line that came through Budleigh was closed in 1967, when many of the smaller lines in England were [...]

After riding north through the center of Mexico, I crossed the border at Douglass Arizona, and headed west, keeping south of the 10 freeway. Here are some of the photographs. Riding along route 80 I happened across the leftovers from an industrial city, which I found to be called Bisbee.  There is something wonderful about [...]