Green Again
Spring always creeps slowly into the winter-brown Vermont hills and then explodes. This, the other foliage season, a riot of green, seems to arrive in the space of three days.…
Biking Croatia’s Dalmatian Islands
Two generations and a Croatian flag in the town of Stari Grad on the island of Hvar in Croatia's Dalmatian islands. I had the good fortune last week to be…
RAGBRAI 2
More from the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, in all its glory: Above, a mountain bike stunt rider at the bike expo, Sioux Center. Below, they got the…
RAGBRAI!
Every July for 40 years the Des Moines Register and a legion of volunteers have put together a little event called the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, better known…
Spring Turns a Corner
In the Vermont hills, we're finally moving from the gray browns of March into the soft green pyrotechnics of Spring: East Montpelier and Calais roads, and one beautiful but unfortunate…