Following the historical Hastings Cut-Off around Nevada’s Ruby Mountains led us on a beautiful two-track, part of the California Emigrant Trail while researching a story for Four Wheeler Magazine in September 2010. Hastings Cut-Off Four Wheeler Magazine

A belated Happy New Year to everyone. We brought in 2011 from a small alp hut near the Swiss alpine village of Feldis in the Canton of Graubuenden. Solar electricity, melting snow for water, firewood for heat, and of course, no Internet, but lots of snow and perfect weather.

Real progress. After years of planning and numerous problems with neighbors and the local Planning Commission to get the permits, our dream garage is taking shape. This is a necessary project leading to our departure for the Trans-Eurasian Odyssey and our adventure along the Silk Road. We will have safe storage for our worldly possessions [...]

For the first time in years, the weather in Switzerland has been remarkably cold and beautiful during the Holiday Season. The temperature has seldom risen above -5° C (23°F), with occasional storms. A winter walk through the snow-covered fields gave us this beautiful sunset.

An idea whose time has come. U.S. consumers pay thousands of dollars a year for the privilege of “borrowing” a shopping cart. Half the time they are left in the parking lot to rot in the sun, be hit by cars, be stolen, pushed into a ditch by vandals, or collected by a worker who [...]