Adventure

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...

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...

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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...