18th November 2008, Boston For reasons not very specific, certain objects acquire an importance beyond what mere frequency of encounter shou...

7th April 2009, Boston , USA Quite distant from the horrors spatially and chronologically, a quote often read before but now seen carved in ...

6th December 2008, Taunton, Massachusetts The crunch of the shoes is not unlike gravel once I give it a few hours but when fresh, it gives m...

Their first appearance in my life was as the savages whose throats Buck (the dog hero of Call of the Wild) tears to avenge his last and most...

Everyone was smiling. And I mean everyone. The trainers, the audience and the dogs. This wasn’t a performance. This was happiness on loop. A...

I went looking for giant vegetables but came back remembering the stares. Palmer in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska is known for world recor...

Glenn Highway wasn't something which I had imagined Alaska would be. It was green, it was watery, it was lush in an almost tropical way...

Mountain. Sea. River. Rock. The road weaves past them supporting me and my ever-widening eyes. The sun in May does not take a break and doe...

  Valdez. Val-deez. Just pronouncing the name sent me away to Spain. This wasn’t Spain of course but it was Alaska’s Spain connection. The t...

  There is a clear difference between wildness and emptiness. Driving through the Thompson Pass towards Valdez was my first proper experienc...

  Denali had given us almost everything that day. Consolation has its own way of torture by being insufficient, fragile and inherently feebl...

Denali National Park was proof of concept - with snowy massifs separated by infinitely wide valleys, patchworks of colour packed with beasts...

To spend an extra day at Chicken was to give up on my dream of seeing the Yukon, a river whose name rings of adventure. The road to Eagle on...