The Times and Travels of Nolan
Documenting trips I've taken and places I've seen.
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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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. …
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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They say that nobody shows as much zeal for their new faith and traditions as much as someone who converts to Catholicism. I’m not sure how true that is; it sounds good though. And I sort of get it. Maybe this isn’t a one-to-one comparison, but John Muir became one of the most respected wilderness …
Some things just belong together in this world. Ranch dressing belongs on a salad. Beautiful lakes belong in the mountains. And college football belongs on Saturday mornings in the fall. Don’t mess with what works. So that’s where we can pick up my narrative of the 2024 Detroit Tigers – on a college football Saturday. …
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If you’re anything like me, then you grew up fascinated my maps, globes, and other things that depicted far-away places. The typical globe when I was growing up showed a few geographic features. Invariably, if mountains were included, then they’d have to include the highest peak in North America – Mount McKinley. At 20,310 feet, …
Another year gone, and this time I wasn’t even awake to wish it good-bye. Yeah, that’s right – Elizabeth and I went to a cooking class in OKC on New Year’s Eve, got home at 10:00, and I was in bed and snugly asleep by 11:00 to be into work on time the next morning. …
Colorado has a well-deserved reputation for being overrun by tourists. I’ve seen it before – after all, you haven’t lived until you’ve coordinated a wedding with 170 guests in the heart of Colorado’s tourist belt. Memorial Day marks the opening of the summer season across the state, and the San Juan Mountains are no exception …
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 …
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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 …
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