Tag: Travel
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A Brief Stint as a River Rat (Featuring Motion Pictures!)
I don’t exclusively climb mountains. As skiing is to winter, rafting is to summer. How cool is it that you get to float on the very water you skied on?! While I don’t actively seek out water sports, I have a few friends that have worked as raft guides. When an invite comes my way,…
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Fourteener Frenzy – Colorado
I spent a majority of my summer in Salida, CO, a place where several fourteen thousand foot peaks dominate the skyline. The draw to climb them is inescapable…. With temperatures routinely soaring into the mid-nineties, I often felt trapped indoors. Without Maggie or any appreciable community in town, I also felt quite lonely. The job…
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Una Boda en Colombia – Cali
15-20 June 2023 No, not that Cali. My cousin invited Maggie and me to his wedding in Cali, Colombia. This wasn’t necessarily intended to be a destination wedding. Rather, his fiancé (now wife) is from Cali and it made the most sense for the American invitees to make the trip instead of the reverse. Maggie…
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Strike While the Flatiron is Hot – Boulder, CO
27 May 2023 To round out my road trip from Montana to New Mexico, I stopped in Boulder to visit my friends, Evan and Erica. Having recently purchased a truck and hefty fifth wheel, they were starting their own transition from normal working life to living on the road. I was stoked to catch them…
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The Solo Road Part 4 – Nebraska
22-25 May 2023 Connecting the dots between the Black Hills and Denver, CO, my route was taking me through the panhandle of Nebraska. Until recently, I had no reason to stop in Nebraska, but my sister and her husband moved their cattle ranch to Nebraska last summer. First, I had to find my way into…
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The Solo Road Part 3 – South Dakota
18-22 May 2023 Equally popular and overlooked, the Black Hills of South Dakota are a true gem. It would be a stretch to include the Black Hills in discussions about the Rocky Mountains, as it should be, since they have a character uniquely their own. I spent five days romping around the Black Hills, hiking,…
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The Solo Road Part 2 – Wyoming
16 May 2023 Next up on my route south was Yellowstone National Park. My past experiences with Yellowstone left something to be desired… Given that I missed the eruption at Old Faithful some years ago, it is the parking lots, gift shops, and crowds that stand out in my memory. Another attempt to explore a…
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The Solo Road Part 1 – Montana
15 May 2023 So began the adventure alone. I had about a month to get from Montana to New Mexico. With a car full of camping and climbing gear, the American West was my oyster, I just had to find the pearls. I suppose it was my mom who taught me to take the scenic…
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A Fork in Our Trail
For sixteen months, Maggie and I were rarely more than a stone’s throw from each other. Sharing in all the sights, sounds, and smells from far corners of the globe, and making new memories together everyday. Routines of normal working life make spending so much time with your significant other impossible, unless you somehow work…
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The Gravity of Canyonlands
In our down time this past spring, Maggie and I decided to sign up for a Wilderness First Responder (WFR, or “woofer“) course. Maggie needed to renew her WFR certification ahead of starting a ranger position with the National Park Service, and I had been thinking about taking the course for quite some time. When…
Distance Over Time 