In late January of 2026 Sarah, Darian, Ryan, and I took a trip up to Napa. Ryan was in town on business so we decided to make a weekend of it. We opted for a wine tour with Platypus Tours (your guess is as good as mine 🤷♂️) and stayed Read more
The place we stayed the night before, in Doolin, was unremarkable so I’m not going to bother wish photos. However they did have a map for guests to pin their homelands. I somehow managed to cram one into the already over-marked southern tip of CA. There was also a group Read more
This stop was a bit of an odd one. It was part historical site (the castle and some remaining structures) and part faux town of yesteryear. To their credit, it was sometimes hard to tell which parts were original structures and which parts were fake. At one point we wandered Read more
The Ring of Kerry is a drive similar to that of Maui’s Road to Hana. We chose to drive it ourselves, which started out as a great idea and ended up as a bad one after Google sent us down a “two way road” roughly wide enough for a portly Read more
Sarah and I have been to a bunch of foreign countries together; Italy, Croatia, and Iceland… come to think of it we seem to favor countries that start with I. Anyhow, on the morning of the 16th Sarah and I went our separate ways for the first time ever which Read more
Father and son go hiking in Colorado without incident. No bears encountered… except Yogi which was fine.
In fairness, we saw vistas and canyons but I like alliterations. Oh, and we saw some more lakes because lakes are the waterfalls of Canada. This day was a long leisurely drive north along the Icefields Parkway (except for the first stop). The drive itself was almost enough to make Read more
At the edge of Banff (or at least the part we came to know as Banff) is a lazy river along which they have a really neat art walk. It’s a seemingly endless stream of art installations built placed in nature along a picturesque backdrop. First, the nature: Natural Life Read more
About a 15 minute drive from our Airbnb was Bass Lake. We did some hiking nearby and then walked along the water for a bit. It was a Thursday morning and overcast, so it was quite peaceful. Mono Trail We started off with a very short but poorly-labeled-as-easy hike called Read more
There isn’t really a ton to say about this. It’s Yosemite. The granite is real, the vistas are unreal. We hiked around for about 4 hours, which put the boys at over 5 miles… which is probably about 4 miles more than their little legs are used to. Despite not Read more