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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 […]
September 2023–hiking the Dolomites, my 4th Oktoberfest, + my 30-yr high school reunion
September made the long hours of August worth the toil. On Labor Day, we flew first class to Munich–the first time we’ve been able to fly east across the Atlantic and actually lie down + sleep. I loved Bolzano, Italy, the town that can’t decide if it’s Austrian or Italian, […]
August 2023 – driving Atlanta Motor Speedway and lots of less exciting Zooming
August was one of the hardest months I’ve ever had professionally, with more cases than I’ve ever handled and with less help than I’ve ever had (and less revenue to hire the needed help). That said, my sweet bride paid for me to drive on Atlanta Motor Speedway in the […]