Browsing the buffet - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Now accepting housesitting applications for our home in Phoenix between mid-Dec 2026 and mid-Jan 2027. No pets to manage, just free lodging for you. Borrow our car. Wear shorts on Christmas. Visit the Grand Canyon. Hug a saguaro. Hike a mountain preserve. Get some tacos. Enjoy a nearly free trip.
Say cheese, Eddie! - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Visiting a coffee plantation in Tanzania - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
We successfully rebooked our New Orleans road trip—the canceled one we would currently be on—for later in March. I’ll drive over with our camping stuff and Jen will fly in/out for the long weekend. We’ll mark off two national park units, a state capitol, the World War II museum, and some counties.
Checking back in on my Places I’d like to travel to that I haven’t visited—yet post from Nov 2024, it looks like I marked off 3-ish:
- we finally made it to Africa as part of our 100-day adventure
- I managed to visit a bunch of Indiana
- I visited the two newest national park units (re-completing my quest to see all 433), but failed to visit Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, in spite of having three separate trips planned to see it. Still, the park units were the far higher priority for me, so I’m taking at least partial credit for this one.
If our 2026 goes as planned, we should mark off a few more items from the list too: Norway, the Canadian Rockies, and Costa Rica are all already on our travel calendar, and New Zealand is leading the field for our December trip too.
I could also see us squeezing in weekend trips to the Idaho panhandle and Vancouver, but neither is highest on priority list this year so I wouldn’t say it’s at all likely.
The Banana Kid - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure
“…the rains in Afffrica” - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Building out Jen’s new travel-focused micro.blog site has given me a ton of FOMO about my own sites. Currently rethinking my plans…
Interesting post on Instagram’s year-end memo. The future returns to the individual—there’s never been a better time to have your own website to post your stuff. Feeds are dying, as is virality + influencer-status (thank fucking goodness!). Let’s abandon social media and return to social networking.
It’s January 1, which means it’s time to grab your 2026 Campfire Permit. You need one to have a campfire or use a gas/propane stove on public lands in California.
It’s free and takes 5 mins to complete—watch a short video, answer a stupid easy quiz—so just click the link to get it done right now.
My wife Jen launched her new travel blog today at JenWiles.com! She has most 2025 trips & photos posted and will slowly add in prior years, too.
How to follow
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RSS: jenwiles.com/rss
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Email: jenwiles.com/email
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Fediverse: @jen@jenwiles.com
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Bluesky: jen@jenwiles.com.ap.brid.gy
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Micro.blog: @jenwiles
Dinner in Malawi - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
I imported 1600+ instagram posts to rsjon.es today. Fun to see so many old photos, and I’m excited to re-live more memories via my new On This Day feature that shows posts from this day in prior years.
I spent a few minutes this morning following some more bluesky friends on micro.blog. Looking forward to seeing more posts in 2026.
Buying local fruit in Malawi - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Hoping to put this to good use in 2026, starting in January.
A killer app feature on micro.blog would be a way to import facebook and instagram posts. Imagine being able to consolidate all of that into one site. So many people are trapped there not just because of the network effect, but because it’s where they captured one or more decades of their life.
A berry by any other name would smell as sweet - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Ready to make an entrance - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure
