I had just wrapped up a long run in the snow with my friend Jenelle on a chilly February day in northern Michigan when my phone rang. As I was getting into my car to drive home my friend Mark called me out of the blue and invited me to…
My trip to Colorado in July 2023 was a good balance of strenuous mountain hikes, fishing, and chilling out reading and watching Season 3 of The Witcher on Netflix. I also spent a lot of time driving (thankfully the scenery is so awesome so that wasn’t so bad), and squeezed…
The primary purpose of this trip was to complete Wildland Hydrology‘s River Morphology and Applications (“Rosgen Level II”) training as part of my job. I was, however, able to take some vacation days and packed in a lot of trail and mountain fun in the Saturday through Tuesday following the…
Strava link (2021 run): https://www.strava.com/activities/5793766145Strava link (2022 run): https://www.strava.com/activities/7443086354Strava link (2023 run): https://www.strava.com/activities/9159029820 The format for this blog post is different as I’m covering three separate day trips that I took in different years, but since the destination is the same Canadian provincial park I decided to group them together…
After a three year hiatus from international travel, primarily due to the pandemic, I was itching for a big solo adventure. I traveled solo abroad in New Zealand and Thailand, both in 2006, but since then all of my trips (while amazing) have been with friends and were mostly focused…
After registering for the Zion Ultras 50K, held on April 10, 2021, I built a road-trip vacation around the race with the goal of seeing as much of the desert southwest as I could pack in, with an emphasis on hitting the National Parks. I ended up visiting eight National…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/4815015547 My first sight of the Grand Canyon was out the driver’s-side window of a rental car along the East Rim Drive between the National Park entrance and the South Kaibab Trailhead. It was a chilly February morning, with snow blanketing the forest floor but absent from all…
Our Africa trip was long in the making, as Ben, Eli, Ken and I had been talking about fishing Africa for a couple years before we actually made it happen. We started with talks of flying to Zambia with the idea of chasing tigerfish in the Zambezi River and myriad…
My long-time friends Steve, Stephen, and Grace invited me on short notice (a couple weeks out) to join them for a mid-September vacation in the Azores. I had only a vague awareness of the Azores. Essentially, that 1) they are a group of isolated islands somewhere in the eastern Atlantic,…
When George Brinkman called me in the middle of summer 2017 to invite me to come down and fish with him in Mazatlán I told him I needed to save money for my planned 2018 Africa trip. By the end of the same phone call, during which George presented a…