Adventure

As discussed in the last post, “Fishing for Dreams,” I was a weird kid. Not much has changed since then, I’m still weird, and pretty damn happy about it.  One of the many upsides of great weirdness is the great friends you have.  Sure, normal people probably have more friends, but I’m a quality, not quantity person.  Normal people are...

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...

Once again, I jumped into the blue. The water was a little murky.  We call it, "whale snot," but I don't know what it really is; some kind of ocean particulate that tarnishes the visibility of an otherwise deep turquoise ocean.  Lucky for us, the sharks don't care about the lower visibility and swim up to us just the same. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...