“You’ve learned a lot in the past week. Now, we think it’s time you put that knowledge to use with one final test.” Rico, our guide, raised a glass. “You’re going to be making your own cosmo. None...
Did Abraham Lincoln’s assassin live for more than three decades after he was officially reported dead? The answer could lie in a mummified corpse that once toured the country under the name of John Wilkes Booth. Though Booth...
The bottle spun through the air headed straight for my head. I ducked just in time to see it shatter into a thousand brown pieces on the sidewalk behind me. Then the truck sped away. I left the...
The sun broke over the Baltic Sea in a soft, orange glow. Inside a beachside hotel room, I woke in a groggy blur. “What just happened?” An hour before sunset, the bus rolled to a stop at the...
“So this is what it’s like to live on the moon.” A few paces ahead, David Stein paused to catch his breathe on the trail. The Kaiparowits Plateau spreads south for 50 miles from the outpost of Escalante,...
“There is only darkness in the canyon, only the howling wind whipping through the hoodoos, under your nose and into your ears.” I penned those words in 2015. Nearly four years later, I stared back into the canyon again.
