The Times and Travels of Nolan
Documenting trips I've taken and places I've seen.
Interior Alaska in August is a fair approximation of heaven. Imagine being there on your own for your first-ever visit, and you’re learning a whole new office and a whole new forecast area, and you’ve also got an area the size of Indiana to explore. You would feel like you didn’t want to waste any …
Continue reading “The 2024 Detroit Tigers: How I Fell In Love With Baseball Again (Part Two)”
Tornadic supercells capable of dangerous tornadoes and extreme hail are expected to develop from northwest Texas into much of southwest and southern Oklahoma through evening. Those are sobering words that you don’t want to read as an Oklahoma resident. And so I didn’t! It was May 25, 2024, a day right at the back end …
Continue reading “Colorado 2024: The Million Dollar Highway”
Picture this: you’re sitting in a building on the shores of Swiftcurrent Lake, enjoying a beautiful Montana afternoon. Except your enjoyment is twofold, because not only are you in front of one of the most beautiful views in the world, you also have a beautiful view right in front of you. No, I’m not talking …
Continue reading “Glacier National Park: Many Glacier Hotel”
There isn’t a more American sport than baseball. Sure, football is more popular, and basketball is more niche to just this country. But baseball has such a connotation with summer, hot dogs, and freedom, that you just can’t help but think of it as our national pastime. I grew up with that worldview: my first …
Continue reading “The 2024 Detroit Tigers: How I Fell In Love With Baseball Again (Part One)”
May 25, 2024 dawned beautifully in Montrose. I don’t think I could have asked for anything better – there was a mix of clouds and sun, the temperature must have been right around 50, and on the far side of the RV park, the Uncompaghre River was roaring with fresh snowmelt. The whole world was …
If you have three days in a spot, you’d better make them count. Elizabeth and I were halfway through our first day in southwest Colorado, and it really felt like there was more to see from the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Somehow over the last few years, I’ve become kind of a travel/parks snob, …
After a month spent on one of the greatest adventures of my life, I’m finally back in Norman. What is there even to say about my time in Fairbanks? It was a time I’ll never forget. Hopefully one day Elizabeth and I will bring our kids to Fairbanks, and we can take them to do …
It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted one of these. The simple reason there hasn’t been one lately: I have been going, going, going non-stop. For essentially 10 days now, life has been a blur. There was: Yeah, it’s been a whirlwind. The first two weeks here were sort of lonely, but I …
It turns out that being here has left me way too busy for anything like a daily diary. You’ll have to forgive the relative lack of posts. That just means I have a lot to talk about! The Job Working here at WFO Fairbanks has been an enjoyable challenge. I’m up here as a lead …
What a start to this trip! If the next 3 and a half weeks are anything like the last 24 hours, I’m going to have the time of my life in Fairbanks. First of all, I should state the obvious: it was really, really hard to leave home yesterday. Scipio spent a rainy morning wanting …
