Tag:adventurous
Goat Mountain lies about 10 miles south south east of Canmore in Alberta, Canada. Of course, if you’re Canadian, since 1977 that’ll be about 16 kilometers – that’s as the crow flies. It’s a bit longer by the road which twists and turns through the mountain passes and along the valleys. Out of Canmore you take Alberta 742, otherwise known as the Smith Dorrien Trail, and follow it south till you get to Goat Pond. Here I’m shooting almost due […]
I only spent a few days at Angkor Wat and that was back in the early 1990s. It’s one of those places and times that, looking back, I wish digital cameras had existed and I wish I had had more time to explore, and I wish there hadn’t been a war that left the area littered with land mines. I also wish consumer GPS had existed back then as well so I would have been able to accurately place this […]
I was wondering what to title this image. It’s a view east along Northshore Road in the Lake Mead Recreational Area. As I was looking at the road that winds its way through the desert hills I got to thinking this is no Roman road, with all its twists and turns. And then I got to thinking of the Thomas Hardy poem. Forty years on I can still recite the opening lines, “The Roman Road runs straight and bare as […]
