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Despite the late bedtime and the likelihood that my body was still on west coast time, I forced myself out of bed quite early, at around 6:45 am, so I could explore the grounds before we needed to depart for our later appointments that day. Plus I wanted to take some pictures, [...]
Recovered from our earlier adventures, Wednesday morning, Meagan, Jayne, and I stopped downstairs at the café for a light breakfast before packing up the car to Burlington, Vermont. It was a fun ride northwest. Halfway along the way, we stopped at Dartmouth for some more coffee and pastries at the Dirt Cowboy Café (informally known [...]
Meagan and I just finished up a fun three days in New England to visit family and take care of some pre-wedding preparations.
We started early on Tuesday morning, groggily stepping off a redeye from Seattle and then headed to Meagan’s parents’ apartment in downtown Boston. We decided to forego a nap, enjoy a coffee and [...]
After a few weeks of debate, discussion, Lonely Planet East Africa reading, internet research, calls to a travel agent in London, and financial soul-searching, we pulled the trigger and booked the Tanzania honeymoon. I finally locked down flights over the weekend and confirmed the safari details yesterday. Woohoo! Rob at Africa Travel Resource has been [...]
This past weekend, I headed up to Whistler with my brother Brian and some friends for the last weekend of the Telus Festival. It wasn’t necessarily intended to be a dudes only trip, but like many ski trips, it ended up that way.
Brian flew in on Wednesday night, and Meagan, Brian, and I went to [...]
A few follow-up items to the Panorama trip. Three cool videos, one gory roadkill addendum.
First, the videos. Trip organizer/cinematographer JF created three videos celebrating our trip. They are all great - the last one, if you had to choose only one, is probably the best.
Day One:
Day Two:
Day Three:
And now, the aftermath of the deer. As [...]
Or the largest piece of fish and chips known to man? The latter, actually, courtesy of Dick’s American Bandstand Bar & Grill in the Salt Lake City Airport.
And if you notice in the picture, I’m only holding up half of the prize - there’s two of them. It was pretty tasty, but as you can [...]
Today was the last day on the hill in Jackson. In the morning, we did some warmup runs on AV chair, but it was pretty crappy. Freezing level was relatively high, so the lower parts didn’t get much snow and were pretty hard and icy.
After lunch, I headed up by myself to the top, and [...]
This morning we went out on a wildlife tour in Teton National Park organized by our hotel, Spring Creek Ranch. Our naturalist guide, Curt, drove us around a few places in the park, and we saw lots of stuff. I highly recommend a wildlife tour if you’re in Jackson - this region is apparently one [...]
Skiing is hard.
Jackson got 2-14″ overnight last night, depending on the elevation and slope, which ordinarily would be fabulous news. There were two caveats:
it was pretty thick, wet snow
I was on skis.
I was skiing by myself most of the day, so I headed for lines that I would ordinarily be stoked to be on with [...]