After yet another very long day, I completely relate to this guy’s choices.

A warthog is resting in a muddy waterhole, surrounded by lush greenery.

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 monitoringβ€”our first β€œdate.” 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 everβ€”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 πŸ“· #OnThisDay in 2012

Sign for Nothing, Arizona

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.

desert bighorn sheeplandscape of red sandstoneSelfie of four of us on a Vegas streetA colorful sandstone landscape

So this happened, On This Day in 2018.

Stadium scoreboard reads β€œHappy 40th birthday to 32-year season ticket holder Scott Jones! Go Devils!”

One of my favorite ASU football memories happened on this day in 2014β€”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.

My dad and I dressed in gold in Sun Devil Stadium

Hidden in plain sight.

πŸ“· Sipapu Natural Bridge, Utah, Mar 2017

Sandstoen natural bridge is camoflauged against simialrly colored sandstone formations.

S goes the curve πŸ“· Mogollon Rim, Arizona (Oct 2022)

S curving highway as seen from a rocky outcrop hundreds of feet above.

Trippy πŸ“· Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona (Mar 2017)

Desert labyrinth

Little Molas Lake, Colorado πŸ“· Sept 2014

Gorgeous lake with a mountain in the background

Basin and range πŸ“· Nevada, Oct 2018

A sagebrush sea punchuated by a mountain with summited with a sunrise and some small clouds.

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.

200,000 miles on the odometer

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 πŸ“· Montana, Aug 2019

Some kickass clouds dominate trhe scene, with a lonely two lane highway and some beige fields in the foreground.

I lost a quarter today, but it was a quarter well spent.

A vintage payphone is adorned with various colorful stickers.