Exploring Southern Utah’s National Parks during Coronavirus

Stepping up to the edge of the precipice, there is nothing but air in the spectacular abyss known as the Grand Canyon. The shackles of months of coronavirus isolation seem to vanish in an instant. Glancing back, my 18-year-old cousin Charlie stands frozen five steps behind me with terror gripping his face. “You’re afraid of […]

You’re Gonna Get on a WHAT? Traveling in the Times of a Pandemic

“So I’m planning on flying up to Portland, Maine next week,” I told my friend. Dead silence. Clear disapproval. I understood that. It’s early July, still in the midst of our much misunderstood pandemic and I was doing something crazy. Getting on an airplane. But how else was I going to get to the summer […]