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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Boat Tour of Grey Glacier + Mylodon Cave
This was an unexpected part of our trip to Grey Glacier. We had hiked the previous day about six miles to the refugio at Grey Glacier. The morning after camping, according to our schedule, we were to catch a boat out of Grey Glacier to reach a car waiting for us at the road. The […]
Hiking and Camping at Grey Glacier in Torres Del Paine
After a quick glimpse of Salto Grande waterfall, we caught a morning ferry to the trailhead for the roughly six mile hike to Grey Glacier. It would be our longest hike during our ten day tour of Torres Del Paine, and we’d be completing in with a hiker as young as 8 and as old […]
Hike at Laguna Verde near Torres Del Paine
We left hotel Tierra Patagonia in the late morning for a flat hike along Laguna Verde. The trailhead was only about an hour from the hotel. It was a pleasant hike along the lagoons. We spotted a couple of flamingos, ate wild mushrooms called Indian Bread, and reached a wonderful mirador overlooking the Paine massif. […]
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