Richard Fleck

Ever New England: Putting America Behind You on Cape...
It was my first visit to Cape Cod off season. After hoofing along the sands for an hour or so, I happened to look back at my receding tracks;...
Hiking to Split Level Ruins in the Grand Gulch
Hiking to Split Level Ruins in the Grand Gulch* Anxious to move on quickly, my son Rich and I forged ahead of the group through sage brush...
North by East to Iceland: Part 7 Icelandic Elves...
Folkoric Beliefs of Icelanders As we approached Keflavik International Airport in Iceland, appearing on the IcelandAir tv screen was an interesting...
North by East to Iceland: Part 6
The Blue Lagoon and Beyond We awakened early on our third day in Iceland and soon found ourselves in the breakfast bar of our hotel in Reykjavik...
North by East to Iceland: Part 5
Not Coal Nor Oil, But Icelandic Fire Iceland is situated atop the Great Atlantic Rift that is quickly (geologically speaking) dividing Iceland...
North by East to Iceland: Part 4
Iceland At Last! At long last we arrive at Keflavik Airport some thirty miles east of Reykjavik! I may have dozed on the IcelandAir flight between...
North by East to Iceland: Part 3 The Birds of...
As our IcelandAir jet flew over a piece of Newfoundland well on the way to Reykjavik, my mind drifted back down to Port Aux Basques over fifty years...
North by East to Iceland: Part 2 Prince Edward Island
A Winter Crossing to Prince Edward Island Just a few days earlier (a half century ago), I was taking notes in a French literature class at Rutgers...
North by East to Iceland: Part 1
Flashing Memories Over Nova Scotia Well into our cruising altitude out of JFK, we sat aboard IcelandAir for our first ever trip to Reykjavik...
Rambles Across the Isle of Man
My brother-in-law and I took the Isle of Man ferry boat from Belfast, Northern Ireland out into the Irish Sea for three hours until the boat pulled...
Black Canyon of the Gunnison : A Place of Wonder
Maura and I drove for two hours east of Grand Junction, Colorado through pinyon pine, juniper and sagebrush country ever upward to the rim. Suddenly...
A Strange Switch: a short story set in early...
He held up his rifle and aimed at the poacher who was about to shoot a bull elk. But he still had a difficult time saying what he was ordered to say...
Corkscrew Swamp: A Great Place to Explore Florida as...
Cork Screw Swamp Sanctuary on Florida’s West Coast contains numerous wetland eco-zones that remain undisturbed from pine lands to cypress...
Revisiting Rocky Mountain National Park 50 Years Later
Mount Chapin in Rocky Mountain National Park I cannot believe that it has been fifty years now since I served as a park ranger naturalist (now known...
A Nighttime Ascent of Longs Peak
Stars shone with absolute brilliance as I drove across Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park to meet my fellow rangers who would climb...
A Serendipitous Breakfast in Yellowstone
We had taken the trail to Cascade Lake north of Canyon Village the day before. The trail wound its way through lodgepole pine forests and open...