Big Bend Rio Grande Village 2025

Visited the most amazing of Texas’s parks (national or otherwise) in late January 2025 with friends, and had an amazing time. The crowds aren’t as big in the winter, and seemsm like the Rio Grande Village is even more sparsely occupied during these months, so we had plenty of room to spread out and enjoy …

Palo Duro Canyon 2024

Managed to get one more camping trip in before it got too cold in the fall of 2024. Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon in the United States after the Grand Canyon. Here are some of our favorite photos of the trip.

Charleston, SC 2024

I became interested in visiting Charleston after reading The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson, which chronicles the saga of Fort Sumter and the beginnings of the Civil War from both the perspective of Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet and the people of South Carolina. Shelby and I visited the Palmetto State in the fall of 2024 …