Welcome to my travel blog. I’m just reorganizing things so you may find a different look from time to time. On the top of this page you can access my publishing company Ranger Doug’s Enterprises or jump directly on board my 1899 tugboat, Katahdin. Directly to the right is an archive beginning in Antarctica in 2004 which now contains about 250 posts, so scroll away and enjoy!
Latest Blog Posts
The Mlynarski Metronome and Huygen’s Synchronization Paradox
My music education resurfaced in a sorority house in the 1960s during college days. While waiting for my date to descend the circular stairs in perfect splendor, I heard a beautiful piano melody precede her entrance. Upon inquiring, I learned it was none other than...
Mary Jane Colter, Fred Harvey and dinner plates
Mary Jane Colter, an architect ahead of her time, not only designed buildings for the Fred Harvey Company--as covered in the previous blogpost--but also many of the interior decorations of her buildings right down to, and including, the tableware. For those of you...
The Same Booktour–Southbound (Art-History-Condors)
Grand Canyon Bound! Every time I peer into this immense void of geologic wonder and nature's palette of colors, I am always astounded as if it's my first discovery. And this park almost became private property excepting for the efforts of Teddy Roosevelt after his...
Another Book Tour…Northbound (Dinos-Politics-Physics)
Time to visit Jackson Hole again--this time for the Xmas holidays and New Years! It's just cooling off here in Tucson and it's a good time to hawk my book for holiday gifts. First I spend a week in Petrified Forest cleaning Metaposaur bones.....really: I did this...