A CHRISTMAS VACATION – Italy (December 23-31, 2025)
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SPAIN, FRANCE, ANDORRA (February 21-March 2, 2025)
February is a good time to escape the winter of northern Michigan for a warmer destination. I considered destinations like Taiwan and Dominica before settling on northern Spain. I’ve technically already been to Spain as I visited the Canary Islands in 2022 (Tenerife & La Gomera Blog), but mainland Spain…
A LAND OF ICE AND FIRE RUNCATION – Iceland (June 20-30, 2024)
Iceland is a place that’s held my fascination for many years. It’s been on my bucket list as a travel destination. In 2023, I had layovers in the Keflavík Airport on my way to and from Scotland. It felt weird being in Iceland but not leaving the airport, twice. So…
SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS – United Kingdom (Sept. 15-25, 2023)
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…
CENTENNIAL STATE ADVENTURES – Colorado (July 22-31, 2023)
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…
EXPLORING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST (August 6-16, 2022)
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…
LAKE SUPERIOR PROVINCIAL PARK – Ontario, Canada (2018/21/22/23)
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…
TENERIFE & LA GOMERA – Canary Islands, Spain (February 19-28, 2022)
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…
A DESERT SOUTHWEST RUNCATION (April 7-19, 2021)
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…
GRAND CANYON, Arizona (February 2021)
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…