Perfectly Useless Concentration

There seemed to be so few dark hours in Banff. By 5:30 a.m., the sun was already gilding the edges of the window shades. Moose Hotel and...

Photo by Adrian Collins Photography We woke up at 7 a.m. on the fifth day of our trip. By now, I had such little concept of what day of...

Waterton Lakes is a town too beautiful, too idyllic, to be real. It's a movie set of quaint log cabins and flowerpots hanging from...

Glacially eroded pebbles on the banks of Lake McDonald, by Adrian Collins Photography In the women's cabin, no one slept well or for...

Somewhere in Montana. When our alarm went off at seven a.m., the motel room in Sandpoint was already bright with sunshine. I groaned, but...

People look at you differently when you carry a motorcycle helmet onto an airplane. You're not just another girl, or another guy, or...

Photo by Adrian Collins Photography I like to think I have an adventurous spirit, a tendency to say, Sure, why not? before, No, I don't...

Today marks the start of our last week in Maine, and I'm already feeling nostalgic for a trip that hasn't finished. After next week,...

Maine has a sort of mythology in my family. "You just have to go to Maine!" I can hear my dad saying back when I was in high school,...