by Candice Gaukel Andrews | November 18th, 2009 | Comments (13)
topic: Eco Travel, Green Living | tags: cell phone, Eco Travel, facebook, Internet, iPod, laptop, nature, nature travel, Out There in the Wild in a Wired Age, solitude, technology, Ted Kerosote, travel, unplugged, vacation, wilderness, wired world
I won’t have a computer, an iPod or even a cell phone on my nature trip. So don’t e-mail, voicemail, Facebook or even try to call me. Don’t even phone me on a landline. I can’t be reached. When I travel, I purposely sever all lines of communication with my everyday life. I think you should, too. Because when you don’t, I get annoyed.
by Candice Gaukel Andrews | October 16th, 2009 | Comments (9)
topic: Eco Travel, Green Living | tags: aurora borealis, digital photos, Eco Travel, eco-travelers, images, Matthew B. Brady, nature photography, northern lights, photo illustration, photography, polar-bears, Time magazine, wilderness, wildlife, wolf
“After” photo: ship is gone; more highlights (see the “Before” photo below). ©Candice Gaukel Andrews
It looked perfect through the lens. I had the shot all lined up: blue mountain in the background, a rocky trail winding through the middle, and wildflowers in the foreground that made up two-thirds of the composition. I rotated the polarizing filter just enough so that I had a bright blue sky. Click.
by Candice Gaukel Andrews | October 12th, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Eco Travel, Green Living | tags: bears, British Columbia, Canada, conservation, Eco Travel, nature, nature travel, nature trips, protecting wildlife, rainforests, solitude, wild animals, wilderness, wildlife
Only about 400 Spirit Bears remain. ©Candice Gaukel Andrews
It almost sounds mythical.
But there’s truly a place on the far western edge of our continent where a rare animal — a white black bear — can still hunt, fish, gather berries and raise cubs unbothered by humans. There are no roads here, no cut trails, few settlements and even fewer trappings of civilization. It’s a good place to be a bear.
by Candice Gaukel Andrews | August 11th, 2009 | Comments (8)
topic: Eco Travel, Green Living | tags: American wildnernesses, back-to-the-earth movement, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Earth Day, Henry David Thoreau, myth, outdoors, restorative, tonic of wildness, Walden, wilderness
The tonic of wildness. ©Candice Gaukel Andrews.
“We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” — Henry David Thoreau
