“I had to wear this vest all day”. The moment had arrived. My heart was ready to leap out of my throat. Both of our families gathered around us at Inspiration Point, and believe me, I felt more heat from everyone’s gaze than the brutal sun beating down on me. Ridiculously, the example I had …
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National Parks Trip: Jenny Lake
Without much warning, we had entered Grand Teton. Ahead of us, the Tetons rose from the horizon in bluish-grey splotches. Was the view majestic? Opinions differed. Elizabeth was categorically labelling our view a “dub”, even with no the mountains having no definition. I was significantly less impressed. It took little imagination for me to be …
National Parks Trip: Driving to Grand Teton
I groaned when my alarm went off far too early at the Laramie Hampton Inn. Far from a restful night, I had been unable to sleep from pre-proposal nerves for a large chunk of the night. There was a half hour spent in the bathroom, sitting on the edge of the tub and waiting to …
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National Parks Trip: Laramie
Two tickets to Laradise. That’s how I’d sold our overnight in Laramie to Elizabeth, anyway. Now I faced the important task of making sure that my overwhelmingly positive experience in town in February 2020 translated for Elizabeth. I put my best Laramie Ambassador face on once we’d checked into our room at the Hampton Inn, …
National Parks Trip: The Trip to Wyoming
“We’re 16 minutes late…” Elizabeth led off our trip with this most predictable intonation, well before the sun had thought of rising on August 12. Holding up her phone to document our departure from Norman for our vacation video, she simultaneously managed to generate some #content for me AND let me know that she was …
National Parks Trip: Planning and Packing
Let me preface this by saying that I have *never* planned a vacation more than this. It started way back in February, on a bright day in Norman where the low temperature was probably about 4 degrees. Actually, I looked it up and the low that on February 19, 2021 was 2. Scipio did not …
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In August 2021, Elizabeth and I embarked on the trip of a lifetime. Over the course of a week from August 13 to 20, we explored the iconic national park tandem in northwestern Wyoming – Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Every piece of advice we read said we would need this long to see …
