Adventure

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...

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...

Big, cold drops of rain pelted us as we drove the boat towards an island to get some bait.  I could tell from the skeptical faces of my fishing companion, they were not convinced it was a good idea to be out on the Indian River in bad weather, and an even worse idea to be going 20 miles...

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...

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...

This place is incredible The Blue Heron Bridge is one of the few places I’ve experienced that actually lives up to the hype.  Every person who dives in Southern Florida knows about this place.  High traffic at a dive spot generally doesn’t help a place retain its beauty.  In my own diving, I go to great lengths to avoid people...

The alarm went off sharply at 06:00, waking me from a wonderful dream. It was a dream where I traveled around in a camper van I built while photographing some of America’s most impressive critters. Just kidding, it was no dream at all! My alarm woke me right into that great life I was living, and I...

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...

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...

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...