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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...