Adventure

Few things bring people together faster than living in a car. The conversation goes like this. Person 1: “Where you do live?” Person 2: “I live in my car.” Person 1: “That’s great! You wanna drink some beer and go climbing later?” Person 2: “Sweet! Yeah. I’ve got some green too, so we are all set.”

After spending many days far off the beaten path on forest service roads, my arrival to Gardiner Montana was a much-anticipated event. It was going to have all the amenities! A paved road, a restaurant, even a bathroom that wasn’t a tree. I was excited for the comforts but wasn’t exactly wielding high hopes for great wildlife...

I had shivered myself to sleep for the past several nights. Miles from anything and ensconced in the tall pines camp had been cold and snowy. My efforts to photograph the elk migration in the Grand Teton National Park had gone well. In fact, it had gone so well, I was on the hunt for some other...

My incessant pestering of my friends, Ashley and Jason, had finally paid off and we were on our way to Hurricane Ridge to play in the snow. They had been avoiding this journey for a month. Often their reasons were things like, “it’s cold,” and, “there’s snow.” But my persistence really wore them down, and my friends decided to...

My eyes opened in a panic as I tried to decide if I was being hit by a tornado as the wind howled outside, shaking my house on wheels.  Perhaps worst of all, I was incredibly cold and couldn’t figure out why.  This was my first real night in “Ethel the Wonder Truck”, the affectionate name given to the...

The Garden Hotel in Narita Japan has a beautiful little lounge area just a short walk from the lobby with an excellent view of some rice fields just across the canal.  This is generally where I can find a nice place to work that gets me out of my room, but still has the all important wifi.  As I...

About 4 years ago, I met two girls from Japan who were studying abroad in Florida.  The three of us took my boat out, went fishing, and even had a sushi dinner on the day I speared a nice cobia.  When they left, we said our goodbyes and I didn’t think I’d ever see either of them again.  This...

Florida is not normally associated with a serious paragliding destination, but my experience in 2015 changed all of that.  Powered paragliding became an obsession for me early in the year, and the idea of riding the rising columns of air had always seemed exciting.  The only problem was, everyone I talked to about my great plans to soar on the afternoon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUOBk2RNB5g Open our hearts to the goodness of the universe, and the universe graciously delivers.  I didn’t know it, but I was going to have one of those days. I didn’t go paragliding with the intent of thermaling, if I had, there would have been a cozy jacket on my body so that I didn’t turn into a popsicle at higher...

An overcast day greeted me as I jogged along the winding road towards the forest trails in a tiny town called, Morbach.  Situated on Southwestern side of Germany it is a beautiful, but lesser known area.  When my German friends hear my whereabouts, they generally ask, "where is that?" The charm of the place really is in the feel...