Don Pogreba is a current writer and retired teacher of English, Social Studies and Debate, and a loyal, if often sad, fan of the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers. When he is not traveling, he is working on his classroom web site or dreaming about another adventure.
I probably need to give Sedona another chance. While the area, with its trademark red cliffs, blue skies, and hiking trails was beautiful (and the drive down to Flagstaff via some backroads presented some ideas for future stops), my brief visit to Sedona in March was not one of the highlights of my Southwest trip. The traffic in the...
Despite having a plan to see the Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, Sedona, and more during the course of my spring break trip, I was most excited to see Monument Valley. Unfortunately, while I had great weather the first afternoon I arrived, there was very little sunlight for my sunrise tour into the backcountry. Despite the photos not turning...
After I left Antelope Canyon, I posted on Instagram that it might have been one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, and a week removed from the trip, that thought still holds. The tours of the canyon take you about 100 feet underground into a canyon carved over millions of years by periodic flooding through the area. Be sure...
How the Refrigerator Became an Agent of Climate Catastrophe–Much of the world’s recent growth in cooling capability has been an adaptive response to global warming. The problem is self-perpetuating, because the electricity that refrigerators and air-conditioners run on is mostly generated by burning fossil fuels. There are other...
Hog farming has a massive poop problem–North Carolina is not the only place where the lagoon and sprayfield system exists. A lot of large-scale pig farms in the US store and dispose of waste in this way. However, in states like Iowa that experience more frequent freezing temperatures, farms store the waste in deep pits under the...