Often, while Kristin is slaving away and ticking off boxes on fancy, bureaucratic documents while we’re in port, I get into the countryside for little effortless jaunts with our carefully planned collegiate extension of U.Va and the ISE curriculum. Semester at Sea offers field programs to students as part of their practicum in-country with over-qualified [...]
A Morning on the River, a Night at the Rodeo
July 13, 2011 By 25 Comments
Part of our motivation to take a Great American Road Trip was to explore the mind-bogglingly massive open spaces that the United States has to offer. In sheer numbers, our country has 84 million acres of protected land, 85 million miles of clean river and 4.5 million acres of ocean, lakes and reservoirs. This does [...]
Getting to Know You: The Girl Behind the Blog
June 19, 2011 By 41 Comments
As an avid fan and devout seeker of mysteries I’ve embarked upon a series of Q&A sessions with my wife, Kristin Luna. There are some things that therapy an open relationship cannot answer in the daily grind of life and since she puts a lot of information about herself on the Internets (that I never [...]
A Fish’s World Through a Fish Eye Lens
October 6, 2010 By 11 Comments
The biggest adrenaline rush I’ve had came when riding the dive boat out to Sipadan in Borneo. Schools of hammerhead in all their species lay beneath. Whirling tornadoes of barracuda were down there. Leviathan herself dwells beneath the Celebes Sea! Everything I’d read beforehand about diving at this particular spot led me to believe that [...]
Photo Friday: Mojave Desert, California
June 11, 2010 By 27 Comments
Putting aside the shattered wrist and accompanying titanium plate, this trip was epic. Blustery temperatures, nary a soul on the trails and vistas that surely inspired many a spaghetti Western. Once again the crew assembled for a long four-day weekend in California’s southern deserts. We do this every year but quite often schedules do not [...]
Photo Friday: Fort Funston, California
November 13, 2009 By 10 Comments
If I were the Army, I’d put a gun up here. Oh wait, that’s right. They did! Sixteen inchers in fact. The bullets weighed 2000 lbs and had a range of almost 30 miles. Dude, that’s a BIG gun. Apparently, San Francisco never had to fire these weapons in anger so, in keeping with military [...]
Photo Friday: Lake Berryessa, California
September 25, 2009 By 11 Comments
We began the day bleary-eyed and sleepy at 630am on a Sunday to beat the traffic and weekend warriors. My good friend Danny had purchased this sexy race boat for a song from a dude desperate to purchase ANOTHER blown 454 Chevy speed-boat last year [...]
