Perched on a cliff on the central California coast fifty miles south of San Francisco, is the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse is one of the tallest in America, has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit at sunset, November [...]

On Saturday after returning to Ciudad Juárez from the Samalayuca dune trip, I wasn’t quite ready to return to El Paso. Luckily, my friend Michael wasn’t either so we went to one of the markets and had a cerveza outside. Since we had a burrito for lunch, we were both hungry and decided to go [...]