The Times and Travels of Nolan
Documenting trips I've taken and places I've seen.
Elizabeth and I have been to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for her family reunion in 2017, 2018, and 2021. Each year was somewhat different. The first two times, we only went for a weekend while Elizabeth was taking summer classes. I got to meet family members and see the hits of Rehoboth Beach, and that was …
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Montana! It was a hot and hazy day in Great Falls, but the heat wasn’t going to get me down after the Oklahoma heat wave I’d escaped. Elizabeth and I had a pretty sick car and a cabin waiting for us just a few hours away. In fact, the process of leaving the airport had …
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By 7:00 a.m. on July 12, 2022, Elizabeth and I had already survived a last-minute tortuous debate on how best to get our two suitcases under a combined 100 pounds. We had gone through the checklists to make sure nothing got left behind. And most importantly, I had a plan to get both food and …
For years, Elizabeth has had one goal: see the glaciers of Glacier National Park before they’re all gone. She’s got a point: there’s basically no reality where the small alpine glaciers that remain in the park as of 2022 will still be around by 2100. Heck, they may not be around by 2035. So when …
A month and a half ago, Elizabeth and I traveled to Montana to see Glacier National Park. It’s tucked into one of the last truly wild places in the lower 48 – the Livingston and Lewis Ranges of northern Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. Of course, the frontcountry of Glacier can’t be characterized as wild anymore, …
Home games are fun. Some home blowouts: 29. Oklahoma 56, West Virginia 14 – 2019 This was one of the dreaded 2019 Big Noon Kickoff games that people swear are part of the reason Oklahoma bailed for the SEC. And you know what, on that sleepy October afternoon, part of me may have been inclined …
Continue reading “Counting Down My Undergrad OU Games: 29-25 – Home Cooking”
This is becoming something of an annual feature for me as we get close to college football season. Nostalgia peaks in mid-August as I look back to some of the memorable times I had from 2016-2019 as an OU student, hoping that maybe I’ll catch some of that lightning in a bottle again. This year, …
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2022 is my last-ever summer vacation, in essence. August 1 is (possibly was, by the time I finish this post – it’s July 31 as I write the intro) my first day at NWS Norman. From here on out, there’s no convenient 3 months off of being a student. I’m a little sad about that, …
It was a trip I’ll never forget. I don’t know how else to summarize the week and a half in Wyoming in August 2021. What started as an idea on a day where Elizabeth and I were snowed in in early February turned into the most-involved trip I’d ever planned. There were campground reservations to …
There’s a feeling that comes at the end of every trip that’s pretty much indescribable. Humans are hardwired to feel a sense of loss when something comes to an end, even if it’s a job they didn’t like, or someone they weren’t close with moving away. From a young age I felt that sense of …
