Last year, Elizabeth put together an epic birthday weekend for me: This year, I had to return the favor. Only a few problems. First of all, where to find the money? It didn’t necessarily help that I have a brand-new auto loan and rising expenses in the face of inflation. That one solved itself in …
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Glacier National Park: Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Side
Holy shit. The Logan Creek valley of Glacier National Park suddenly opened up as we drove past the Logan Pass Visitor’s Center. The first thing I noticed was that this was all so *big*. The mountains were huge around us. The Garden Wall loomed on the right side of the valley. Miles and miles in …
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Glacier National Park: Logan Pass, Part One
Logan Pass is the stuff of legend. Somebody had the bold idea to take a cleft in the continental divide right at the terminus of the Garden Wall, and blast the artery of one of the world’s great national parks right into that cleft. And then someone got the idea to put an entire visitor’s …
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Counting Down My Undergrad OU Games: 24-21 – Close Calls
There’s something about a close college football game that just is unmatched by any other sport. The tension of a one-score game with 6 minutes left to go in the middle of a regular season game with a middle-of-the-pack opponent? I live for that. At least, I do so when my team emerges victorious. From …
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Glacier National Park: Going-to-the-Sun Road, East Side
First of all, I apologize for how long this post will inevitably be. We’re about to take a trip through one of the most magical drives in the continental United States. I took a billion pictures. When I go through the pictures, I wish I’d taken 10 billion. There’s basically no way to shorten the …
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Glacier National Park: Understanding the Geography
Before I get much further into this blog series about Glacier, I think it’s important to mention the geography of the national park and how it shaped the week Elizabeth and I spent there. When you’re planning for a trip, all you have to go off of is YouTube videos and maps. Those two things …
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Glacier National Park: Swiftcurrent Lake
Down at the bottom of the two valleys I mentioned in the last post, at the head of the Many Glacier Valley, a large lake sits at the foot of Grinnell Point. This is one of *the* iconic photos from Glacier National Park – the big mountain that somehow looks exactly like a rocky Dorito …
Glacier National Park: Moose Spotting at Fishercap Lake
It was 7:00 p.m. mountain time on Tuesday, July 12. We’d been up since 5:00 mountain time flying halfway across the United States, hunting down groceries and a cooler, and then driving halfway across the state of Montana to the doorstep of Glacier National Park. One would be forgiven for thinking Elizabeth and I were …
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The End of the Mariner Era
“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.” -Andy Bernard, The Office There are things that you dread in life. Someone calling to give you the bad news about a family member. Getting let go from your job. The last time you get to …
Glacier National Park: Arriving in Glacier Country
The first days of trips are often magical simply because they’re the first days of trips. Everything is still laid out in front of you. Fatigue isn’t a problem yet. You and your traveling companions aren’t annoyed at each other over minor things that accumulate in a car. It’s easy for the first day of …
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