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 …
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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 …
The 2024 Detroit Tigers: How I Fell In Love With Baseball Again (Part Five)
How did we get here? In an abstract way, that’s a great question. The Detroit Tigers were in the middle of one of the greatest playoff runs in the history of Major League Baseball. They’d gotten off the deck – from 1 in 500 playoff odds to 4 in 10. With 7 games to go, …
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Colorado 2024: Telluride
Ouray lied when it called itself the Switzerland of North America. There was nothing wrong with it – it’s truly a beautiful town – but it’s at at the foot of long, slopey mountains with bright-red colors. It feels like you’re in Colorado when you’re in Ouray, even when you’re walking the city streets. Telluride. …
The 2024 Detroit Tigers: How I Fell In Love With Baseball Again (Part Four)
One thing you learn in sports: most great stories don’t actually end up happening. Dreams do come true for a select few teams, and it’s always at the hands of someone else. Being a sports fan is about embracing the journey, embracing the pain, and feeling sweet catharsis when your team finds its way into …
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