True short stories and photos from a part time adventurer
Catalina State Park made me want to live in Tucson. It was beautiful, and in the morning I drove 3 minutes to a Starbucks for breakfast. I ran into people on the trails who were just taking their dogs for a walk because they live 5 minutes away. This was also my favorite photography of …
I don't have excessive thoughts about my second stop, White Sands National Monument. I believe I was there for 45 minutes. It was sandy. It was white. It was very pretty. It actually would have been nice to camp there and see sunset or sunrise, but I was just doing a stopover on my way.
My summer 2018 road trip was my last road trip with Adventure Prius I. The 2005 Prius with more than 240,000 miles on it had a good life, and it was time to pass it on to my cousin. My cousins live in Seattle, which opened up new road trip opportunities for me. Usually when …
Our time in the Amazon was an amazing, humid, sweaty sweaty uncomfortable, once in a lifetime experience. I felt like Teddy Roosevelt in The River of Doubt but without the life threatening infection. Fortunately I had that vaccine taken care of so I was not concerned about yellow fever. Also the extra strength, probably skin …
There could not have been more of a difference between our trip in the Galapagos and our trip in the Amazon... In between we made a stop in Lima to visit Alonso (our roommate/landlord before he moved to Peru for a year) and had WAY more adventure than expected. Our full day there we encountered …
It's finally time, the last of the Galapagos posts. Then we just have one in the Peruvian jungle and it's on to the road trip! It's almost impressive that I'm spending so much time on my trips from last summer that I won't be finished by the time this summer rolls around. Side eye lava …
Punta Suarez was overwhelming. We were there to see waved albatross but there was so much more.... Apparently after snacking on the eggs some lizards move into the nests. The first waved albatross we saw was sitting on a nest, but the next pair was doing their mating dance. They mate for life and have …
I thought the beach before this was full of sea lions, but Espanola was next level. Not only full of sea lions but the sand was perfectly white, it was like having a sea lion photography studio! The best part was we had all afternoon to hang out at the beach, but everyone except me …
Back to the Galapagos! I'll try to move faster through these so we can get back to more of the hiking and camping, I just have all these crazy photos I want to share and it's hard to cut them down, so we'll focus more on just the photos. At Punta Pitt we went for …
I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled program of me trying to get through all my trips from last summer before the next summer travel season starts because over the long weekend we took Stella on her first camping trip! This is one of the moments that I am so glad I live in Texas, because we …
