Before leaving for South America for a year, I fulfilled a goal I had since a teenager to fish the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament on my own my boat. We fished in my 30′ Grady-White among the big boys, and we managed to bring a nice dolphin to the scales in one of the […]
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Shipping a Land Cruiser from Japan
The 2007 Tahoe finally reached the end of it’s life. It had a good life, reaching 300,000 miles and having towed an Airstream around the country for a year. When I went shopping for a new car, something practical and reliable, I obviously opted for 1996 Land Cruiser located on the other side of the […]
Camping at Hanging Rock
A quick camping trip to Hanging Rock State Park in North Carolina. Rosy Red, our vintage VW Beetle, always makes weekend trips more adventurous. In this case, the trunk with our groceries inside wouldn’t open. Of course, it opened when we got back home at the end of the weekend. Enjoyed Wilson’s interactive ghost stories […]
Travel Makes School and Museums More Impactful
I was reminded today how our children’s lives and worldview will be forever impacted by our travels, in South America and other places. Outside of our museum in Raleigh, there is a giant globe showing the southern hemisphere. We’ve driven past this globe a thousand times, to the point that it’s an ignorable feature in […]
North State Game Club, Chartered 1906
Our family is fortunate to belong to the oldest organized deer hunt in North Carolina, the North State Game Club. More than a century in existence, the club has rich history and traditions in hunting deer with hounds. At an annual cleanup, my brother was given a copy of a collection of documents, North State […]
Jack Fishing in Bahia de Banderas, Puerto Vallarta
In the next phase of my career, the phase getting going after our year of South American travels in 2022 / 2023, I’ve decided I want to find a business reason for continued involvement in other cultures and also access to new adventures. As such, I’ve opted to advise a software engineering company with operations […]
Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge in the Amazon
After a week in the city of Manaus, we traveled a few hours up river by van to the spend a week at the Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge. The lodge was on the edge of the Rio Negro and across from the Anavilhanas National Park, where we explored by river boat, kayak, and by foot. The […]
Piranha Fishing in the Amazon
Of course we opted for a Piranha fishing excursion at the Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge on the bank of the Rio Negro. We took a small boat to a treed area of the river. The river height surges in the summer, and so we were fishing in the flooded treetops. We used cane poles with diced […]
Arrival and First Day in Manaus, Brazil
We traveled thousands of miles from Punta Arenas, Chile to Manaus, Brazil. It was a difficult day and night of travel. We flew from Punta Arenas to Santiago, Santiago to Sao Paulo, and Sao Paulo to Manaus, a city of 2.5 million people living in the Amazon. We arrived at the airport well after midnight, […]
Riding Horses at La Peninsula, Puerto Natales, Southern Patagonia
We’re not much of a horse riding family, and so we signed up for a new experience at La Peninsula ranch. We enjoyed riding horses so much on the first day (despite the wind and rain), we actually cancelled kayaking on the second day to ride horses again. The weather the second day was perfect. […]
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