Cross Country Ski Weekend in Maine
“How do you feel about a weekend of cross-country skiing?” “Yeah. Cool, let’s do it.” “It’s a ski-in-ski-out sort of thing.” Whatever that means. “Sounds great.” Apparently, ski-in-ski-out means...
View Article36 Hours In New York City
Friday 6:30pm Arrive in New York City and make your way to Brooklyn to drop off you bags. Magically navigate the subway during rush hour. 9:30pm Head to Greenwich Village for dinner at the Olive Tree...
View ArticleCosta Rica 201: Trip Planning Tips
I saw four kinds of monkeys last week. And a three-toed sloth. And a shark. And these weird creatures that look like tiny pigs if tiny pigs were also lemurs. I also learned a lot. I learned how to...
View ArticleCosta Rica 201: Food & Drink
Travel is about wringing yourself out and filling yourself with wonderful things. Delicious food, good people, and incredible adventures. Here’s a taste of what we had to work with in Costa Rica and...
View ArticleHeading West – Any Tips?
Freedom hit me so hard today. Like when you’re so wrapped up in a story that the pages are turning themselves and finally you’re staring at the few final lingering sentences, then space. Space to...
View ArticleWashington: Olympia, Snoqualmie, & Seattle
So… the Pacific Northwest is incredible. This weekend I saw three beautiful places, two incredible waterfalls, and fell deeply, deeply in love with Seattle in a matter of a couple of hours. I don’t...
View ArticleThe Oregon Coast
Sarah and I have driven between Portland and Eugene a couple of times in the past week. While the state is beautiful regardless of where you drive, we were looking for a change of pace. So we headed...
View ArticleCrater Lake, OR
Day one of the cross-country road trip brought us to Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States. It’s a collapsed volcano that filled with snow and rainwater until the basin was full of clear,...
View ArticleRoad Tripping 101: Getting Prepared
So I just finished my first road trip. Naturally, this means I think I know everything there is to know on the subject and feel the need to share all of my newly discovered wisdom on the topic....
View ArticleRoad Tripping 101: How to Be An Awesome Co-Pilot
The crazy parts of your brain come out to play after twelve hours in a car. Sarah and I spent over a hundred hours in the car over the course of just a few short weeks. If we’re experts at anything,...
View Article48-Hour Adventures: Franconia Notch State Park
Before I start this story, understand that I am gushing right now. This place is incredible. Call-everyone-you-knowand-tell-them-about-it incredible. Ten-Instagrams-in-a-week incredible....
View ArticleHiking: A Beginner’s Guide
Hiking has quickly become one of my favorite things to do. It’s travel. It’s exercise. It’s seeing beautiful things with beautiful people without emptying your wallet. But it can be tough to know what...
View ArticleI ate everything in Austin
Let it be known – books are the ultimate social get-out-of-jail-free card. If, on a sunny Monday afternoon in October, you find yourself eating lunch at a restaurant alone and if, on a sunny Monday...
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