Our first “general geography” post of the great 2025 European adventure has arrived! In this one, we’ll take a look at the general geography of the Campania area, Sorrento, and Capri/the Amalfi Coast. If you know someone who has vacationed in Italy before, then they’ve probably at least passed through this area. Having visited for …
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My 28th Birthday Trip: Louisville
There are a couple of different types of vacations. The ones that get all of the attention are the huge ones. Elizabeth and I have been on The Big One a lot recently – our national parks/engagement trip in 2021, Glacier in 2022, our honeymoon in 2023, our Europe trip in 2025. But one of …
Florida 2025: Fort Lauderdale
People like myself might know South Florida for the Everglades, the pristine marine life, and the unique swamplands. Most people know South Florida as that place you go to hit up the beach. The two areas coexist in shocking proximity in the areas near and south of Miami. However, the further north you go through …
Europe 2025: Flying In Style
Of all of the things that Elizabeth and I could have disagreed about when it came to our European vacation, I doubt many people would have pegged “the flights” as our biggest conflict. And yet that’s exactly what it ended up being – a debate not over where to fly, but how to fly to …
Europe 2025: Overview and Roadmap
Over 9 years together, Elizabeth and I have seen a lot of the United States. The Rocky Mountains, the Coastal Ranges, the Appalachians. Lake Michigan, Lake Ponchartrain, Great Salt Lake. Fairview, Oklahoma, and Fairbanks, Alaska. We’ve driven, flown, boated, and taken trains all over the landscape. But our international experiences have remained notably sparse. There …
Diary: NWS Goodland, August 2025
Note: Due to staffing shortages in the National Weather Service, a program of temporary deployments has been ongoing in 2025 to help prevent the most impacted offices from having to close their doors at night. It’s similar to the time I spent at NWS Fairbanks in 2024, but on a broader scale. After talking it …
Glacier National Park: Two Medicine
Here we are, over three years after my visit to Glacier National Park with Elizabeth. I’m finally writing out my 34th and final blog post from that trip. The reason to finish it now when there are certainly other, more fresh trips in my head to try to blog about is simple: next weekend, I’ll …
Florida 2025: Biscayne National Park
Way down yonder in the swamplands of south Florida lies not one, not two, but three national parks. They each have their own unique elements; Dry Tortugas covers colonial history and island keys; the Everglades covers swampland, the river of grass, and mangrove stands; and then there’s the national park almost entirely devoted to marine …
Counting Down My Undergrad OU Games: 17-14 – Big 12, Big Drama
It’s almost football season, which means it’s time for the next installment in this basically-annual series. One day I might finish it? Today we’ve got four OU games that finished with a combined 15-point margin of victory, generally against feisty-but-overmatched opponents. All of these games are getting firmly into the “great memory” tier though. 17: …
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Rehoboth Beach 2025
Can you believe that this year was my 7th beach week with Elizabeth’s family? That’s just a crazy way to put things into perspective. A little part of me always feels like the new guy around Elizabeth’s extended family, but the data are very clear. I’m not the new guy, I’m just part of the …
