On This Day
- Dark Patterns + It’s Always DNS…
- AI clones of my book on Amazon
- Our weekend trip to central Nebraska
- Aug 19 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Sheep in Wales, Iceland, Waterwheel, North Cascades
- Asshole Scott
- Aug 18 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Iceland, Wales, water in the desert, Isle Royale
- Creating a rental car kit
- Aug 17 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Conwy, Myvatn, and…Cabinetlandia?
- Aug 16 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Icelandic waterfalls, Isle of Man, Agua Fria ruins
- Aug 15 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Iceland, Paleozoic Trackways, and Spaghetti Monsters
- Aug 14 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Iceland, “wild” horses, and a nuclear reactor
- Socializing at the bar
- Aug 13 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Scotland, Iceland, rivers, and weird border crossings
- Aug 12 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Scotland, Oregon, Marshall, Fern Canyon
- Aug 11 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Isle of Skye, San Juan Islands, North Rim of Grand Canyon
- Breweries from our LA trip
- A game at Dodger Stadium
- Aug 10 OTD for #Blaugust2025: More Scotland, more Rim, Seattle
- The Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace
- Aug 9 OTD for #Blaugust2025: Scottish Highlands, 🥥, 🏕️, 🍻
- Aug 8 OTD for #Blaugust: a castle, Presidential aircraft, and a fire tower
- Aug 7 OTD for #Blaugust: train ride, cool pines, riding corn, finding Waldo
- We booked a ridiculous trip last night
- Aug 6 OTD for Blaugust: Henges, Bears, and Blue Balls
- Aug 5 OTD for #Blaugust: London & Pat Tillman
- Aug 4 OTD for #Blaugust: London, Redwoods, Devils Highway
- OTD Aug 3 for #Blaugust2025: London, Oregon, White Mountains, Alaska, ASU football
- OTD August 2 for #Blaugust2025: Oregon, Alaska, Arizona
- OTD August 1 for #Blaugust2025: Alaska wildfire story
- RSS
- (This post—yep, it counts too! 😝)
In spite of some fun destinations and photos, I didn’t get around to any OTD posts for #Blaugust this weekend. I probably won’t get one posted for today either—at least before bed tonight. I’ll see if I can catch up over the next few days. It’s been a fun way to relive previous trips.
I’m having a blast looking back at “On This Day” photos for each day for #Blaugust2025. Here’s the last five:
OTD August 2 for #Blaugust2025
This is the August 2nd OTD post for #Blaugust2025.
Aug 2 2023
We flew to London, and stayed at the Holiday Inn Express at Heathrow; this was the view from our room. Quite convenient, far less noise than you’d expect, but very few non-hotel or non-airport food options around. Still, I can see us doing this again.
Aug 2 2022
Waking up in Winnemucca, Nevada, we checked out “Buckaroo Hall of Fame and Museum,” a weird-ass museum in town. Because how could you not go see the Buckaroo Hall of Fame?
Oh, and I apparently shot a video tour, too! 😆
Small town museum complete, we drove up to Steens Mountain National Conservation Area in eastern Oregon for a quick hike, a site Jen still needed to visit for her Treasured Places quest. That drive also crossed the Nevada-Oregon border, a difficult objective on my State Border Crossings quest.
Then it was off to wander the aptly-named Trail of the Molten Land at Newberry National Volcanic Monument, another Treasured Places site for Jen. It’s been ages since I’ve been to Newberry, so it was a fun stop.
We stopped into Bend for a brewery visit, then drove over to Eugene, enjoying a sunset stop at Crescent Lake.
Aug 2 2018
We drove ourselves down from Fairbanks to camp outside of Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve, the nation’s largest national park.
Aug 2 2015
We departed the Mogollon Rim after our weekend camping trip, heading back to the Valley. I had a thing for jump shots for a few years (I could get a surprising amount of air back then, for a short fat white guy, at least), so I apparently snagged one near the edge of the rim. On the way back, we also poked into the Shoofly Ruins up on Houston Mesa near Payson.
Aug 2 2014
My friend Jenny and I marked off Sleepy Dog Brewing and Desert Eagle Brewing on our Phoenix Brew Quest. It was that early quest—I had only just begun drinking alcohol a year or so prior—that got me into craft beer.
OTD August 1 for #Blaugust2025
A series of reflections and personal stories are shared, highlighting adventures and significant moments from August 1st across multiple years.
#Blaugust2025
It’s August 1, and that means it’s day one of this year’s Blaugust, a monthlong blogging challenge.
I’m participating again this year, though I don’t expect to actually post everyday. I’m including titled or longish posts on this blog, as well as new public notes I publish on rscottjon.es. I’m generally avoiding adding any new posts to my main website at rscottjones.com, as I’m in the middle of a redesign.
EDIT: following BIrming’s excellent lead, I’m going to add in “On This Day” photo posts, too. Anyway, here’s the list:
EDIT: Whoa! I actually finished, and several days early too! Bummed I couldn’t keep up with my OTD posts, but hey, it was a ton of fun looking back at all of the trips I did post.
Posts (31/31)
If you’re interested in joining me, here’s more info.
Here lies the Thing?
#OTD 2012
A midday stroll down the road
Sunset in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia (no edit, straight from the iphone)
Anyone have a ball of yarn?
Fitzroy Falls, Australia #WaterfallWednesday
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.
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.
As the road winds away 📷 OTD in 2010
An “end of season” night paddle from OTD in 2022, featuring some “dream-like” photos.
A few shots of some of the petroglyph panels from Grapevine Canyon, Bridge Canyon Wilderness, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada - visited OnThisDay in 2018
Reflections of the past - OTD in 2018 #OnePhotoClub
I hiked the Hidden Canyon Trail in Zion National Park On This Day in 2014—complete with the same vista, same tree trunk, same ASU hat 😂 from a 2002 hike.
Some fossils in the Kaibab National Forest overlooking Marble Canyon, #opcOnThisDay in 2015.
An absolutely glorious sunset paddle, enjoyed On This Day in 2021.
