BVI Sailing
We absolutely crushed this trip. It was late October and we were sitting in a small cabin in East Tennessee. I was on call for work and Casey had come to visit as well as do some motorcycle riding through the amazing autumn foliage of the Appalachian Mountains. We had done an incredible amount of planning for a...
Flying Coffin: I hope I don’t die in this plane
“Hell Yeah!” was all I could say when my friend Greg asked if I wanted to go for a ride in one of the most famous aircraft ever built, the B-24 Liberator. But shortly after my arrival at the airport, as I strapped into my primer-green metal “seat,” which positioned...
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...
When Ethel and I arrived in the Grand Tetons, it was early spring. Snow still covered much of the area which caused most of the roads to be closed. The only grassy areas of the park were in the lower elevations which concentrated all the animals into the fields. Looking over the herd of elk and bison...
The Land of Smiles
Thailand delivers on this promise. It is also the land of fantastic food. Delicious vittles are being cooked (by the smiling people) most anywhere you go. Even now, as I write this, I am making my plans on where to eat tonight. I'm think about another round of Thai-TakoYaki and Mango Sticky Rice, but there really...
The corner of a classroom was my home for much of third grade.
The white, cinder block crook in the wall was far from a punishment however, it was instead a caring effort by a tolerant teacher to keep me from being a continued menace when I had reached her limit. She was in fact, a wise woman. A less...
“That’s crazy,” is the response most people have upon seeing photographs of sharks bumping their noses against my camera housing. Despite my best efforts to assuage their fears, most people aren’t going to easily let go of their image of a big, bad shark. Through no fault of our own, we have developed a deeply ingrained terror of sharks. ...
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.”
Huge peaks in the distance, massive animals proudly strutting the fields, and sheep with horns so big the obvious fact must be mentioned in their name. The visual impact is so great, you might miss the tiniest critters whose diminutive stature makes them a challenge to spot. Their desire to go unnoticed generally leads to most of...
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"Adventurer, photographer, and airline pilot, in that order. Let’s explore more, complain less, and make the world a little better each day."
