The Passport Project, Part One: It’s A Lot
As our yellow cab cut through the drizzly Manhattan morning, I went over the checklist that was engrained in my head. Pick up extra sunblock. Tell Wells Fargo about my travel plans. Triple check our medical paperwork. We pulled up to the airport five-minutes-late-for-two-hours-early and Mohammed and I shot out of the taxi and into […]
A Solo Female Traveler in India
It’s an excruciatingly hot day in Jodhpur. I’m sitting on the rooftop of my guesthouse, observing life below. The car horns from the street are relentless; loud music streams over from the building behind me; the chant of mantras wafts up from downstairs; the Call to Prayer from the nearby mosque sounds from across the […]
Alaska From Above
Their plan was to split the journey into two legs: First, they would fly from their home city of Seattle to Alaska for the summer. Then, in the winter, they would load their plane up again, takeoff, and fly across hemispheres all the way down to the southern tip of Patagonia. But they never made […]
Photographing the U.S. National Parks
Jesse Thorpe was lost. It was 2 a.m. and pitch black. He drove aimlessly, unsure of where to park — it certainly didn’t help that he was unfamiliar with the winding roads of Joshua Tree National Park. But he was on a mission to photograph the Milky Way with the photography gear he’d purchased specifically […]
They Are More Than Just Parks
A little over seven years ago, Will and Jim Pattiz took a spur-of-the-moment road trip that changed the course of their lives. They were living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and decided to head west toward the Grand Canyon. They picked up a few friends and drove until they reached Petrified Forest National Park […]
More Than Just Parks: Great Smoky Mountains
For their second film, Will and Jim Pattiz of More Than Just Parks explored Great Smoky Mountains National Park. They chose to visit during the fall, when the park’s autumnal colors are second to none. During the two weeks they spent filming, they discovered that even though Smoky Mountains is the most-visited national park in […]
More Than Just Parks: Grand Teton
Early summer is when the wildlife of Grand Teton National Park is on the move. It’s also the time of year when Will and Jim Pattiz, the brothers behind More Than Just Parks, decided to visit. During their month-long trip to the Wyoming national park, they reveled in the awe-inspiring array of pristine wilderness, glacial […]
Everything You Need to Plan a Trip to Yosemite National Park
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” (Ansel Adams) The Basics Established: October 1, 1890 Area: 1,169 mi2 (3,038 km2) Time Zone: GMT -8 Visitors: Over 5 million people visited Yosemite in 2016 Opening hours: 24 hours a day, […]
When Yosemite Becomes a Home
For Britain Peters, Yosemite National Park was a place that shaped his childhood. He can recall long summer days spent exploring the park.Back then, he was only momentarily mesmerized by the towering granite cliffs that propelled Yosemite to fame, but enthralled by the lazy swell of the Merced river, the armies of unique insects, and […]