by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Travel
The Avenue of the Giants splits the redwood groves so dramatically it seems Moses paved the road with a wave of his cane. I imagine the Sinkyone Indians, who lived here for thousands of years, hunting and gathering food from these forests. The groves were so thick...
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Travel
Yongdingmenwai. Yongdingmenwai. Yongdingmenwai. Great. I’ve just arrived in Beijing, I don’t know where I am, and no matter how I pronounce my hotel’s street name, it comes out all wrong. Not that the passers-by aren’t trying to understand me....
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Travel
Picture a house designed by John Muir and the Brothers Grimm, and you’ve got Stonehenge. Stepping through a boulder cavern, you spill out into a multi-tiered living room 23-foot-high. An 80-ton granite boulder forms one end of the living room; another slab of...
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Global/Community
LISTENING to John Francis recount his fifty-six years, you might not guess that he was silent for seventeen of them. Looking at his dreadlocks and gold earring, you wouldn’t imagine that he once had a desk job with the U.S. Coast Guard. Idling next to Francis on the...
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Global/Community
A society without structure, the Ogiek have long roved the highland Mau forests of Kenya hunting and gathering honey, needing neither chief nor council. Now they are fighting for their lands and their lives. And, with help from Survival International, they are...
