Just off Honduras’s north coast on the Caribbean Sea and clearly visible from the mountainous mainland there are a group of the three large islands, Utila, Roatan, and Guanaja, and the smaller islands, or island groups, St. Helena, Barbareta, Morat, and, closest to the mainland, the two Hog Islands (Cayos Cochinos). Divers flock to backpacker […]
Steep Ravine Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley, California. One of the secrets of California state parks are the nine Steep Ravine cabins on Mt. Tamalpais just north of San Francisco. Mt. Tam, of course, is one of the birthplaces of mountain biking. It shelters 6,300 acres of redwoods, oaks, and meadows, with views to the Farallon […]
Categories: Beaches, community, National Parks, Planet Earth, Sand, Turismo
Going down to New Zealand was an amazing and magical trip, Its not easy to get to see these places and have a chance at discovering these magnificent places unless you know friends or locals who can take you to the most beautiful and peaceful landscapes where tourist are absolutely non existent from the every […]
Categories: community, Environment, Ideas, Travel
Gulf Islands, British Columbia. The modern cabin is all too frequently more modern than cabin, but the four small dwellings designed by Osburn Clarke in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia are decidedly grounded in the traditional. Yet they still retain the open and airy nature of the contemporary. They take advantage of coastal B.C.’s […]
The small Polish border town of Kostrzyn-nad-Odra its home to the Woodstock Station rock festival. held along a forest road towards a military base on its outskirts, the throbbing roar of guitars beyond the forest can be heard, believing I was in for a night of testosterone-induced aggression. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The […]
Categories: community, National Parks, Photo, Travel
Mexico has the largest number of UNESCO designated World Heritage Sites of any country in the Americas and the sixth most in the world. As of August 2010 there were 27 cultural sites and 4 natural sites on the list, a total of 31. 1- Agustin Cardenas Castro Palacio de Justicia de Michoacan Morelia photo […]
Categories: community, Conservation, Environment, Ideas
Meridian, Idaho. When architect Macy Miller got out of college, she realized that all her schooling had taught her nothing about actually constructing a house. And then, after living in 2,500-square-foot house, where she had bedrooms that were never used, whose doors were never opened, she decided to downsize — and to build herself. The […]
Hood Canal, Washington The waters near this re-designed boathouse stay chilly even at the height of mid-summer, making it a haven for oystering. It’s this temperature that keeps the waters clear, but the cold also makes winter storage space important. Near the water on the shores of the Hood Canal, Seattle-based architects Bosworth Hoedemaker have […]
I’ve seen two of these graffiti murals in Paris once, one of them is no longer there. Some were amazing work of art in their own sense even if art collectors don’t think they have any value. To me they have amazing social value and impressive message. This one includes an awesome mix of nature […]
I step off the boat for afternoon high tea and into the plot of an international love story, that of Agathe Devisme and Kalista Poulsen — not exactly what I expected at a sheep farm on a remote South Greenland fjord. But then again, that’s not what the French architect expected either when she came […]
