Mexican Road Trip: Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá

by Richard Quinn | Jan 27, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 9: Uxmal: A Tough Act to Follow Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá? There wasn’t really a competition between these two Mayan cities, it was more of a question that I’d been asking myself. I’d seen plenty of photographs of both, so I knew more or less what to...

Mexican Road Trip: Merida and the Meridanos

by Richard Quinn | Jan 3, 2024 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

When our attempt at driving west to San Cristobal de las Casas was thwarted by yet another Zapatista roadblock, our only option was to return to Palenque, where we spent another night with the toucans at the Comfort Inn. It was beginning to feel like we were spinning...

Mexican Road Trip: Mayan Ruins and Waterfalls in the Lacandon Jungle

by Richard Quinn | Dec 14, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 4: AFTER THE ROADBLOCKS: THE ANCIENT MAYAN CITY OF PALENQUE As a photographer, my favorite subject has always been beautiful landscapes, of the sort that you find in our National Parks, but ruined buildings, especially those that are ancient and iconic, run a very...

Mexican Road Trip: Zapatista Road Blocks in Chiapas

by Richard Quinn | Dec 14, 2023 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 4:  FROM VILLAHERMOSA TO PALENQUE After three long days and more than 1,200 miles of driving, we’d made it from Laredo, on the border with Texas, all the way to Villahermosa, in the Mexican State of Tabasco. We stayed the night there, but we didn’t...

Mexican Road Trip: Heading South, from Laredo to Villahermosa

by Richard Quinn | Dec 14, 2023 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

In October of 2015, shortly after I returned from my Alaska RoadTrip, my old friend Michael and I packed up my Jeep and drove it to the Yucatan. I’d wanted to see the Mayan ruins for as long as I could remember, but considering all the negative reports I’d...

Canyon de Chelly: The South Rim Drive

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Road Trips, Travel, Tribal Lands

This is Page 2 of a longer article: Click here to return to Page 1 THERE ARE SEVEN OVERLOOKS ON THE SOUTH RIM OF THE CANYON: Indian Route 7 begins at the turnoff from US 190, and serves as the main road in the Navajo town of Chinle. If you follow it headed east, it...

Canyon de Chelly: Part 1: The Rim Drives

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Road Trips, Travel, Tribal Lands

Canyon de Chelly (“D’Shay”) is a geological marvel of the first order, a hidden treasure, tucked away in a remote section of the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. It’s one of the more striking features of the Colorado Plateau, where sediments from an ancient...

Mexican Road Trip: How to Plan and Prepare for a Drive to the Yucatan

by Richard Quinn | Nov 4, 2023 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

People who don’t live in Mexico tend to assume, based on what they see on the news, that the whole country is unsafe for road trips. Ask just about anyone, and they’ll tell you that driving your own vehicle anywhere south of the border is foolishly risky....

Photographer’s Assignment: Mount Rainier

by Richard Quinn | Aug 30, 2023 | Mountains, National Parks, Photography, Road Trips, Travel

The State of Washington has a population of almost eight million people, and more than half of them live in or near Seattle, the 15th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. There are several things that all those folks have in common: An extremely high cost of living...

Photographer’s Assignment: Crater Lake

by Richard Quinn | Aug 12, 2023 | Mountains, National Parks, Photography, Road Trips, Travel

The Cascade Range is a major chain of mountains that begins in northern California, and runs through Oregon and Washington before crossing the border into Canada. Many of the peaks in the range are volcanoes, most long dormant, but some still active, part of the...