After yet another very long day, I completely relate to this guy’s choices.
My first safari here in Africa did not disappoint. Many more coming up in the next several weeks…
Hidden.
It’s Untappd’s Year in Beer review time.
In 2024, I apparently:
- drank 271 unique craft beers
- comprising 56 different beer styles
- from 116 different breweries
- at 80 different venues
Not my best year (all substantially down), but also not a bad one considering the lack of travel we had this summer.
Happy Anniversary to my incredible wife, Jen!
9 yrs ago, she followed me out into a remote stretch of desert to a petroglyph site I was monitoring—our first “date.” Later that day we ended up at the shittiest rural bar you can imagine, sharing a 1st kiss below this topless painting of the bartender.
White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, AZ - from an #OnThisDay in 2007 visit to help better delineate a parking area so vehicles would stop driving over the formations.
Our weirdest brewery visit ever—we visited Guam’s Ishii Brewing 7yrs ago on our quest to visit every brewery in the US Territories. It was located in a…parking garage? The brewer was great, but it was not exactly a tasting room. We sat at card table while he cleaned equipment. Beer wasn’t bad tho!
Nothing is no more 📷 #OnThisDay in 2012
Met up with two friends in Vegas #OnThisDay two years ago for some public lands, craft beer, and the completion of a NFL stadium quest.
So this happened, On This Day in 2018.
One of my favorite ASU football memories happened on this day in 2014—my birthday ten years ago today. ASU beat Notre Dame 55-31, the most points ever scored on that storied program, before a sellout crowd at Sun Devil Stadium in a match up of top ten teams. What a fun game.
Hidden in plain sight.
📷 Sipapu Natural Bridge, Utah, Mar 2017
S goes the curve 📷 Mogollon Rim, Arizona (Oct 2022)
Trippy 📷 Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona (Mar 2017)
Little Molas Lake, Colorado 📷 Sept 2014
Basin and range 📷 Nevada, Oct 2018
I finally hit 200,00 miles on my Subaru Outback. I’m surprised that it took this long, but I’ve been a bit long roadtrip deprived the last 6 years or so. She’s still a great road trip vehicle, even in her more advanced age; I know I’d benefit from an upgrade, but you know, this one is paid off.
Wrote a quick bit about three other examples of forums that are still alive and prospering, and still quietly serving up quality communities; I didn’t see these mentioned in that long post of forums that went around recently, but they all seem noteworthy to me.
The open road 📷 Montana, Aug 2019
I lost a quarter today, but it was a quarter well spent.
