Mae Travels

This stretch of tundra is especially green because of a nearby bird nesting colony. Walking on the tundra is an exceptional experience. ...

Watching marine mammals from the bow of the ship was one of the most exciting parts of our trip to the Arctic on the National Geographic Exp...

Reindeer on the Svalbard islands are a sub-species of the reindeer that live in Greenland and Norway and elsewhere in the Arctic. They ar...

Here's the iPhone compass reading from the nearly highest point on our trip around Svalbard last week. Highest was 80º 20'. Virtu...

Tourists at the fortress facing the harbor. Hommage to France: these are obviously imported street toilets with all the French sign...

Today we met the Audubon tour to see the rare and endangered Kirtland's warbler. The best view we had of the bird was of the above fe...

In the window of the pet store Dogma-Catmantoo -- a poster from the Cat's Gallery of Art.