During our 24-day overlanding tour through Africa, I “hit” my activity and exercise goals (via Apple Watch) early each morning, simply due to the bumpy African roads. Now? Yeah, not so much…
Not having much wifi and feeling constant pressure to upload pics/posts of our adventure has left me with very little time to stay connected to my social media friends, whom I miss.
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Can you hear me now??
Ok, we decided to adopt (yet another) new quest: visit the smallest country on each of the inhabited continents.
Here’s the list:
- Africa: Seychelles
- Asia: Maldives
- Europe: Vatican City
- North America: St Kitts & Nevis
- South America: Suriname
- Oceania: Nauru
We just finished our 24-day overland safari and are officially halfway thru our big trip!
Want to hear how it’s been? Or just say hi?
Join us on an informal zoom call on Sun Jan 12 at 10am AZ (12pm ET).
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Way to make it super awkward, man…
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)
