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 …
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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 …
Glacier National Park: Hidden Lake
It’s only 3 years later and my Glacier National Park blog has finally reached its last full day – and just in time, because in 2 months I’ll be joining my family for another trip to Glacier for a week. It’ll be myself, my parents, Taylor, Kyle, and Wyatt, who at a year and half …
Florida 2025: Crocodile Spotting at Flamingo
Some people find it easy to wake up early. Some people find it difficult, especially when you’re on vacation. I’ve always been on the “waking up early is easy” side of things. That goes double if the mattress at the AirBNB in Florida City has collapsed on my side of the bed so that Elizabeth …
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Denali National Park: Savage Alpine Loop
Low clouds obscured the sun once again as August 24, 2024 dawned in the central Alaska Range. Matt and I awoke in our cabin in Healy to the reality that our grandiose plans of climbing above the treeline would probably be cold, windy, wet, and miserable. That’s not to say that there was no fun …
Florida 2025: Everglades National Park
It’s amazing to think about, but Elizabeth and I graduated from college 5 years ago. Those years were a great time for many reasons. One of the biggest? The wonderful friends the two of us made. After graduation, we all gradually went our own separate ways (well, maybe not all – there are several of …
The 2024 Detroit Tigers: Wild Card Series
What a ride it had been back to the promised land. 2014 was 10 long years in the rear-view mirror from 2024. It had been a long, long drought of terrible baseball since the last time the Tigers had made the playoffs. But in a rapid-fire, two-month strike of lightning, the drought was over. Detroit …
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Colorado 2024: Mount Sneffels
Our initial adventure into the San Juan Mountains was coming to a regrettable close. Elizabeth and I had loved every moment of our Memorial Day weekend (except maybe for the last mile of the Ouray Perimeter Trail) and were already talking about coming back to the San Juans on a skiing trip that winter. We …
Jason’s Wedding
Back in early January 2024, Elizabeth and I went to a wedding in Virginia for her high school friend. It was a nice enough wedding on the campus of William and Mary in Williamsburg. There were two major highlights in my eyes – first of all, the fact that Elizabeth let me make a stop …
