Author: dadcation
August 2024: biking to Asheville, Nashville to drop off the oldest, and hiking with 6 high school boys.
July 2024: concerts, my 10th annual Reliance TN float trip, and zooms
June 2024: exploring Peru and Dad turns 80!
May 2024: the oldest graduates, the youngest turns 14, the hero hill climb, and New Orleans
March and April 2024: 5 national parks in TX, NM, and AZ plus skiing in Utah and a few hours in Mexico
March’s compilation video shows trips to Savannah, Nashville, Park City, and the kids’ first time in Mexico as we started our spring break at Big Bend National Park: In April, we continued our spring break, driving 1000 miles and hitting 4 more national parks for 5 total during our 10 […]
January and February 2024: Queenstown, Nashville, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Key West, and 2 trips to Alabama
January 2024 started in Queenstown, New Zealand, with an awesome New Year’s Eve celebration I’ll never forget, and on New Year’s Day, we toured glaciers by helicopter and had a picnic atop a mountain next to said helicopter, and it was awesome. A few days later, it was time to […]
December 2023: Australia + New Zealand
We concluded our best travel year ever with one of our best trips: Australia and New Zealand for 3 weeks! Here are December’s 31 seconds; I’ll supplement with more photos and info on the trip later on… And, here is all of 2023’s “one second every day” compilation video !
November 2023: Vegas, L.A., and Covid 3
November was rough…October’s travels meant lots of long days at the office in November, but I did get to see my first Formula One race (a few practice laps until a manhole cover took out a Ferrari) before my bride met me for a weekend in L.A. for the Darker […]
October 2023: Jekyll Island, Baha Mar, Dallas, and Halloween
For a dozen years, we’ve gone as a family to Saint Simons Island when I have my annual workers’ comp legal seminar (which is either on SSI or neighboring Jekyll), but this year, the children had too many conflicts at school or that weekend, so I went alone. Hopefully, we’ll […]