Adventure

Hobbiton: A Review

One of the highlights of our trip to Middle Earth (I mean New Zealand) was definitely our tour of Hobbiton.…

8 years ago

Finding Edoras (AKA Mount Sunday In New Zealand)

As the days go down in the West, behind the hills and into shadow, I'm going to be reflecting (i.e.…

8 years ago

A Bear In Ketichikan, The Inside Passage And Vancouver

Well, this is almost it. We are now at our final stop before making the long journey home to New…

8 years ago

Reflecting On A Final (Solo) Ride

As I sit here on night seven of my Alaska adventure with Ariel, my thoughts turn to last week's solo…

8 years ago

Denali National Park And The Aurora FREAKING Borealis!

So we've been in Alaska for a few days now and it is really something. Like it's huge state, but…

8 years ago

Day 3: An Anti-Climactic Conclusion, A Detainment, And An Amazing Sunset

Keeping with the Paul Bunyan theme of the last post, the morning of Day 3 started with a trip to…

8 years ago

Re-adjusting to normalcy: Finding adventure in the everyday

As I sit here at the Delta Lounge in Atlanta (which is AWESOME by the way), it dawns on me…

8 years ago

On being home…

So we got home late last night after an extraordinarily exhausting 53 hours of travel, including some borderline time travel…

9 years ago

They’re taking the Kapoanos to Isengard… AKA back home to New Jersey

Well, I'm sitting here now at the lovely Emperor Club at the Auckland Airport. We had a three hour drive…

9 years ago

One does NOT simply walk into Mordor… Or traverse the Tongariro Alpine Crossing

On Wednesday, Ariel and I traversed the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. Or in other words, we attempted to simply walk into…

9 years ago