The Times and Travels of Nolan
Documenting trips I've taken and places I've seen.
This (long-awaited) post will pick up where the previous post left off. Hiking the tallest mountain in the state of Texas leaves you proud, but hungry. Elizabeth and I finished our descent of Guadalupe Peak late in the afternoon of July 14, 2018. Sore thighs, sore feet, but proud of one of the biggest physical …
Continue reading “Adventure Summer: Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
I’ve spent the past week or so thinking of how I’m going to write this post. I doubt that “year in review” posts are ever easy for the author. After all, articles or blog posts or whatever are supposed to be thematic, right? Everything that happened within the year controlled within one tight narrative, with …
I’ve written up chase logs of each of my favorite six storm chases from a pretty quiet 2020 – the April 11 supercell near Haskell, TX; the April 21 big hailer near Canadian, TX; the April 22 large tornado near Springer, OK; the May 13 shelf cloud in southwest OK; the May 22 weak tornadoes …
Elizabeth and I have a puppy! We adopted him on October 30, and the last month or so has been a never-ending battle of spray bottles, carpet stains, chewed socks, and way-too-fancily named dog treats. Scipio is 3 and a half months old, is an Australian cattle dog mixed with a Pomeranian, and has completely …
Sometimes, you travel to chase the storm. Sometimes, the storm hits your home. On the last day of August of this year, we got a little bit of both – a Highway 9 supercell that stalled right over Norman and produced some of the wildest weather I saw in what was a pretty crazy year. …
Continue reading “Chase Log: August 31, 2020 – A Hailer At Home”
In the middle of this past June, Elizabeth and I got away from Norman for a couple of weeks to spend some time at her mother’s house near Washington, D.C. I have hoped to be able to blog about that trip for some time now, but I’ve been pretty daunted at the enormity of the …
A football season can last a long time. 12 regular-season games, a conference title, a bowl game, and just one or two bye weeks… unless you’re willing to trade every Saturday of your fall, you’re going to miss a few games. I certainly did, for various reasons. Today’s countdown of my favorite OU games as …
Continue reading “Counting down my undergrad OU football games: 48-40 – The Ones I Missed”
It’s been a bad time to be in a transition period in life. People are moving away, moving on to new things; and yet, we can’t even say good-bye because of that pesky once-in-a-century pandemic. What unfolds in the paragraphs below amounts to a good-bye adventure with Bradley and James before they both packed up …
Continue reading “Summer 2020: Camping at Chickasaw National Recreation Area”
This is a bit different than a lot of posts on this blog. A lot of times I keep this blog as a running diary of experiences in my life, with the future in mind. 20 years from now, I hope to find the contents of this blog and be able to reminisce on my …
Toward late summer, I always end up missing college football. Without sports in 2020, that feeling has gone a little extra this year. With that in mind, I’ve decided to count down all 55 OU football games from my undergraduate years, ranked in order of how much I enjoyed them. I think this will be …
Continue reading “Counting down my undergrad OU football games: 55-49 – The Losses”
