This week’s featured Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor is a mountain-scaling, photo-snapping, science-and-travel-writing vagabond who once lived in an off-the-grid solar “Earthship” in rural New Mexico: Mary Caperton Morton. Her stories have been published in EARTH Magazine, Smithsonian, and Climbing, to name a few. Check out her website at www.marycapertonmorton.com.
When did you first hit the road?
I started traveling the summer before my senior year of college, the day I adopted a death row dog from a local shelter. At just over a year of age, “Bowie” had already been through three homes, exasperating each
owner with his irrepressible hyperactivity and appetite for destruction. A friend who worked at the shelter, who knew I had a soft spot for border collies, convinced me to go see him. Of course, it was love at first sight. Read the rest of this entry »
