Glacier Adventure
Glacier National Park. My favorite.* (*at least for today) There are things in nature that I love with every little bit of my heart. Big mountains. Cold flowing water. Tall trees. And all the all the all the green. Glacier is the ultimate mix between massive mountains and walkable woods. For some hikers, the cold rugged ridges of the Colorado or Canadian Rockies, soaring close to…
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Loneliness, stillness, and a North Shore adventure
It’s good to just go sometimes. Adventure is always within reach. The earth is bigger than your stress. Nature is cleansing. You’re allowed to take care of yourself. “Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” ~ Viktor Frankl “With shortness of breathYou explained the infiniteAnd how rare and beautiful it is to even exist”~ Saturn, Sleeping at Last…
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Western States Adventure
Well hey friends. :) It’s a weird year, and I’m guessing I’m not the only one who is missing more adventurous days. So if it helps, join me on a little virtual road trip to the West Coast and some other gorgeous destinations that direction. In fall 2017, Lyssi and I did our first real big outdoorsy adventure, along with our bestie/sister Brie. Since that first…
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Big Bend Adventure
When I think of adventure, I think of Big Bend National Park. Nestled in the “big bend” on Texas’s southwest border with Mexico, Big Bend is the 7th largest national park in the contiguous United States. Despite its size, its remote location (4.5 hour drive from El Paso, 7.5 hour drive from Dallas) helps it remain a well kept secret. It sees less than 4% of…
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Santa Barbara Adventure
“What isn’t clear is why people always say ‘goes without saying,’ yet still feel compelled to say the thing that was supposed to go without saying. Doesn’t that bother you?” – Shawn Spencer, Psych When my adventure buddy asked me if I wanted to tag along to Santa Barbara, California, where she was headed for a 3-day certification program, it was an immediate omgYES for two…
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Happy Thanksgiving 2019!
Happy Thanksgiving 2019! Last year I wrote that I thought that year was the oddest year of my life. I was wrong. This year. 100%. Odd isn’t bad, though. I have a lot to be thankful for. There’s all the usual, but there are some things I’m especially, newly thankful for this year. An odd year makes an odd list, I guess. Starting with this will…
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Colorado Rockies Adventure
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~ John Muir If there were one thing I could convince everyone to do more of, it would be going outside and being in nature. In the great outdoors you can find peace and rest, freedom and clarity, challenge and excitement, beauty and awe. So in the interest of inspiring as many people as…
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Canadian Rockies Adventure
Hello again! It’s been a while! I was away on an adventure and now I get to share it with you, which is almost like getting to relive it again! :) My wife and I drove from Minnesota (home) up to the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and stopped through Glacier National Park in Montana on the way home. Road trips are our favorite, and it was…
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Waking Up in Addis Ababa
I climbed down the stairs out of the plane and walked across a big runway and in through a little door into a big warehouse-like building. Mobs of people crowded the little airport, all speaking languages I didn’t understand. I had arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Scanning the crowds, I finally found my host. Accompanying him was a young Ethiopian man who kept laughing nervously. I…
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Thanksgiving 2018: Celebrating a Year Full of Adventure
I think this last year has been the oddest of my life. It has been one of the best and felt at times like one of the worst. The low times included getting another concussion the week before my wife and I moved and I restarted school, holding my wife’s hand as she walked through sad personal stuff, uncovering a lot of deeply rooted issues of…
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Observation Point, Zion National Park
Last month my wife and her sister and I drove 5000 miles around the western States. We experienced some incredible things. California’s redwoods, the great Grand Canyon, Painted Hills, The Loneliest Road in America, a Ghost Forest off the Oregon coast, and the beautiful paradise of Zion National Park. Oh, and a shocking low flyover by two fighter jets in the middle of nowhere. There are…
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We Eloped to Italy!
Hello again! I’ve missed writing! I decided to take a break for a while last summer with our wedding coming up and with some other big life changes–a big promotion, a move, and too much more to keep track of! It’s old news now, but I’m still so excited to share that I got to marry my gorgeous best friend Alyssa, in one of the most…
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