There are 50 states in the U.S. Over my lifetime, I had visited 39 of them. That put me 9 states behind my parents, who are looking to wrap up their trip to every state next summer in Hawaii. Before they can reach 50, they have to get 49. And to get to 49, they …
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Glacier National Park: St. Mary
There are two different types of campgrounds. The first type is the campground that exists for the purpose of camping. You stay there with friends or family, maybe in someone’s RV. You make campfires and roast marshmallows. During the day, you swim in the lake. You tell your friends about the time you went camping. …
Iceland Honeymoon: Glacier Climbing
We approached our honeymoon sort of like it was a multi-step process. We had to build up to the greatest adventure of them all. If getting to Iceland was like the first step, and driving the Snaefellsnes peninsula was the next, and walking into a glacial ice cave was the second-to-last step in the adventure …
Wedding Weekend – Old Fall River Road
July 23, 2023. It was my first full day as a married man. How did I spend it? Perhaps relaxing in my honeymoon suite with my bride, enjoying our hot tub? Maybe with a romantic dinner for two? Nah, that’s not how the newly designated Meisters roll. We had a whole list of things to …
Iceland Honeymoon: Ice Cave Tour
Believe it or not, there is ice on the island known as Iceland. This may come as a shock, I know. While glaciers are in retreat worldwide, it’s going to take a couple of centuries to melt some of the great icecaps on the southern end of Iceland. The locals have long made a tourist …
Waterton Lakes National Park: The Prince of Wales Hotel
Situated at the foot of Upper Waterton Lake is a bluff. From this bluff, one can look basically down the length of the lake all the way back to Glacier Park. It was designed as a luxury hotel for tourists stopping along the Canadian transcontinental railway way back at the start of the 20th century. …
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Iceland Honeymoon: Snorkeling at Silfra Rift
This is a whole new experience for me. Normally when I blog about a trip, I pick up the narrative right where the previous post left off. There’s no introduction, no denouement, just writing until a stopping point, then stopping. So imagine how it must feel to be writing about my honeymoon, and picking the …
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Counting Down My Undergrad OU Games: 20-18 – Blow Outs and a Bowl
This is my favorite time of year. Each August, as college football season approaches, I get a big burst of anticipation. It’s like some people looking forward to Christmas, or others looking forward to Spring Break. Me, I count down until college football is back. And when I’m doing that countdown, it’s a perfect time …
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Rehoboth 2023
This year’s Beach Week, due to my chronic lack of annual leave, is more like a long beach weekend. Elizabeth and I flew in late Saturday (very late: I worked a full day on Saturday and we arrived at the condo at 2:30 in the morning) and we have until Tuesday afternoon (tomorrow already!) before …
California 2023: Pacific Coast Highway
Michael Scott and Rascal Flatts put it best: “Life is a Highway”. And if that’s true, then there’s no highway I want to ride more than the Pacific Coast Highway. The PCH runs for 656 miles across the state of California from Orange County up to the northern part of the state. It’s a famous …
