When the sun is high and the sky is cloudless, the surface of the Caribbean Sea turns cobalt blue. But on this day off the coast of St. Lucia it was overcast and windy. Rain came and went in hesitant waves. The water’s surface was dark and moody.
We’d spent the […]
Very early one morning, Georgeann Hall woke her grown daughter in the adjacent bedroom of their weekend cabin in Wisconsin. She had just seen a black bear in the kitchen. Her daughter said she must have been dreaming. And Hall agreed, until she caught a glimpse of the bear opening […]
On this Yukon winter night, the distant headlights of an oncoming vehicle pierce the darkness in front of us. But for the occasional moose, those headlights have been the only sign of life along this stretch of the Alaska Highway in almost an hour. That is, except for Tom Randall […]
Spring is near which means hibernation time for bears is almost over. When they wake up, they will be hungrier than a 12-year-old boy after playing hockey. If you’re a homeowner in bear country, you should take the necessary precautions to prevent these four-legged neighbors from deciding your […]
10:31 a.m.: The adventure begins. I enter Vancouver airport after my flight arrives from northern Canada. I have almost exactly 24 hours to kill before my connecting flight leaves for New York. Can I survive for that long in this mini city set within the confines of an […]
