Anton bought a boat. It's a shark of a slope, less than 20 feet long with a single mast, built in the 90's. It came with a new outboard engine which had been only used for about 6 total hours by a previous owner who didn't have time to sail due to health reasons. Meet … Continue reading Maiden Voyage
Anton and I took a short breather and went to Little Manatee State Park, just south of Tampa. Blue skies. Mild morning temperatures. Hallmark Florida springtime. Notes: Duckweed. Anton took a course where he had to go hiking and find identify plant types for assignments. He's super proud of being able to spot duckweed anywhere … Continue reading Little Manatee River State Park
This summer my brother Anton executed a solo crosscountry road trip from Florida to California, and back again. After seeing all the photos and video footage he collected, I'm super jealous (dude, take me with you next time!). Instead of regaling you with accounts of his national park travels, you can watch the fun 3-minute … Continue reading National Park Adventures
Alaska to Florida Adventure: Last Day! We didn't really want to leave the wonderful Drury Inn & Suites (but we did anyway, FL was calling). Chick-fil-Awesome Megan hadn't had Chick-fil-A in over 5 years (Alaska doesn't have any) so we found one and hogged 5-ish parking spaces (I was loving parking sideways across multiple spots with … Continue reading Home
Alaska to Florida Adventure: Day 17 Leaving Memphis behind, we had at least 2 days of driving between us and home. Medical Emergency? Let me say that I enjoyed every last bit of our adventure, but the trip was starting to kick my butt in the physical stress department. Here's why: 6 hours of flights from FL to … Continue reading Drury Isn’t a Lane, It’s a Castle
Alaska to Florida Adventure: The 16th Night Still an hour out from Memphis, Megan made room reservations at a place with the fewest low ratings, accepted pets and was positioned on the road we needed to take in the morning (in light of me being the designated Uhaul driver, we wanted to keep it simple since I … Continue reading Memphica
Alaska to Florida Adventure: Days 15 & 16 Megan had originally wanted to make our next stop Nashville, TN, (she has friends there) but summer storms changed the game. As it stood, Nashville and the Northeast were under a perpetual tornado threat and Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas were under water. This left us with a narrow band … Continue reading Storm Dodging
"The Road So Far..." Starting in Fairbanks, AK, we'd blazed through the bear-infested Yukon and scenic British Columbia to pit-stop in Bellingham, WA, after which we tore east until the transmission went out in Wall, SD. Alaska to Florida Adventure: Days 10.5 - 14 The tow truck dropped us and our crippled chariot off at the … Continue reading Wizards & Track Meets
Alaska to Florida Adventure: Days 7 - 10.5 Megan and I kicked off the USA leg of our trek by way of I-5 south to US-2 (to avoid Seattle traffic mayhem) from which we jumped onto I-90 around Spokane and headed east. Summer storms were making a racket in the Midwest and down South so we agreed … Continue reading The Wall
Alaska to Florida Adventure: Days 5 & 6 The historic area on the other side of the Canadian-US border opened up to a impeccably flat farming landscape (easily the greenest place I'd ever seen). Megan called her relatives and after getting turned around (and greeting a bunch of cows His Highness mistook for giant dogs that … Continue reading The Green Queen
