Adventure

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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. ...

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...

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. ...