🔗 Here’s a roundup listing of “Best of 2025” photo posts from a whole slew of photographers, which is a great way to spend some time this week. (h/t Alex Kunz)
Finally found some good craft beer in Africa (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Final evening with some of our trip mates from our overlanding safari tour - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
A Deeper Map is a mobile app that invites you to discover where ancient irrigation canals and agricultural fields once existed in what is now the Phoenix metro area.
A few video clips from paddling the Lower Salt River
I ran across a few short video clips from various trips down the Lower Salt River and thought I’d toss them into a short post here.
Arriving at the river
Getting on the water
Sunset views
Enjoying the birds
A saguaro sunset
The “wild” horses
An endangered Red Colobus monkey in the Jozani Forest in Zanzibar - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Fish market in Zanzibar - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
Sorta fun map. I guess I’m a US Level 207, depending on how you count. The “levels” are a bit opaque. I’m using “stayed here” to mean visited for a week or more, visiting is more than a day, stopped here is a day. There’s an EU version too.
Joined a buddy for a 5k walk at Papago Park this morning. Always good to spend some time among the creosote.
It’s suddenly become a rather busy 6 weeks of travel starting next week. First trip is 10 days in Costa Rica/Nicaragua, followed by a week long work trip to Seattle, then directly on to Dallas for a week, then home for a week before heading off to El Salvador/Honduras for a week. Whew!
Roadside produce market in Tanzania - OTD during last year’s 100-day adventure.
It’s gorgeous weather outside today, so I grabbed a couple sandwiches to go and brought Jen out for a quick picnic in the park for lunch.
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.
