To the left is a personal journal that is updated often. Over here on the right side one can find the larger photo gallery. It is not updated as often, though changes do happen after major journeys. Nearly 100 photos from our last visit to New Mexico are currently on display, several from our October Thanksgiving weekend in Ohio, as well as a new batch in the Touareg section. If you wish to use a photo seen here for any reason, kindly e-mail me and let me know (address below). The photos on the website are not very large or very high resolution, and I may be able to send you a better version. My main camera is a Fuji Finepix S9000; the walking camera will now be the smaller but capable Finepix S700. A recently purchased A820 is now the everyday 'backpack' camera, to be taken on those particularly grueling mountain climbs when even the S700 will be too much weight.

We are Michael and Deb, vegans and hikers from Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, where we live with our three cats Ferdinand, Gustav, and Mogollon, as well as Hector the Mouse, Ike the Turtle and a small indoor finch flock. We have completed 26 hiking expeditions to New Mexico, finding that we cannot live without the skies, deserts and mountains of that unique place. Another favourite travel destination is London, UK, where we enjoy making new friends, taking long walks in the city and outskirts, attending concerts in the city, and carrying out museum visits and pub pilgrimages. We have also explored the Valley of Mexico in some depth (3 visits), spent an entire summer in Madrid and Barcelona, and spent two weeks in and around Copenhagen, Denmark. Lone Mt Homestead is our attempt to share some of our adventures with relatives, friends and drop-in visitors.

Michael teaches music at Amherstburg Public School and at home in his private studio. When not teaching, performing, practicing piano or attending concerts in the Detroit/Windsor area, he enjoys driving a VW Touareg and Jetta, actively pursuing his photography hobby, and reading (as well as writing) fiction. He also loves to study maps, watch films and classic tv, and work on his HO model train layout. He enjoys microbrewed beer and single malt Scotch. Deb teaches Harp and Violin at home and Language Arts, Social Studies, Art, Ballroom Dancing and Drama at APS. She is an avid lever harp performer, composer and arranger. Her works and performances have been featured in three short films for television broadcast (including England). She also paints canvasses inspired by the spirit of the Southwest and enjoys a glass of red wine and the occasional pint of beer.