Day 7 of Grand Canyon Trip: Indian Garden
This, then, became the "big day" of my trip—the day on which, per the plan that I’d hatched the previous day, I hiked the farthest into (and then, later, back…
Day 6 of Grand Canyon Trip: Going In a Little Further…
I had hopes of getting a really early start this morning; if I did, maybe I could make it all the way down to the 3-mile rest house on Bright…
Day 5 of Grand Canyon Trip
Partly because I got off to a much later start on this day than most others during my trip (thanks to that 10-hour sleep), I decided that it was a…
Day 4 of Grand Canyon Trip: First Day at the GC, First Hike into the Canyon
I ended up deciding to start things out by joining a ranger-led hike going just a little ways down into the canyon on this first morning. The information said to…
Some General Reflections On My Grand Canyon Trip
There will be more day-by-day type posts to come, with pictures and details about my doings out here. This post, though, is not that sort of post. The Grand Canyon…
Days 2 and 3 of Grand Canyon Trip: Getting There
This post may not be among the most fascinating or deep of my writings, but if you’re interested in some details about the rest of my journey out to Grand…
Looking Backward On the First Day of My Grand Canyon Trip
I didn’t really talk much about this to a lot of people, so if you’re reading this, you may well not know that for the first day of my Grand…
Of Beginnings, and a Fateful October Evening Long Ago
This piece was written in February of 2018, about two and a half years before I started this blog (and about two years into my post-marriage life, although just one…
Wrapping Up a 9-Year Chapter of My Life
Today was my last day working at the University of MN. It’s pretty mind-blowing, and it’s barely begun to really sink in. I brought my plants, my penguins, my pictures,…
The Voyage Home (Final Two Days of Yellowstone Trip)
The highlights of the last two days of my trip can be covered via a fairly brief summary, I think. I got up nice and early on Saturday morning, took…
Final Day in Yellowstone (Day 7 of Trip)
I had spent quite a bit of time pouring over my book of hiking trails trying to decide how to spend my last day in the park. I wanted to…
Whitewater Rafting Day! (Day 6 of Trip)
Thursday was the day on which my whitewater rafting adventure on the Yellowstone River (which I’d booked way back in March or April, when I was initially planning this trip)…
Third Day in Yellowstone (Day 5 of Trip)
My plans for this day consisted, for the most part, of finishing up and/or trying again at the things that I’d set out to do the previous day: I wanted…
Second Day in Yellowstone (Day 4 of Trip)
Before I dive into my second full day at Yellowstone, one thing that I feel compelled to mention is how amazing the weather was the whole time I was out…
Yellowstone Trip Day Three (1st Full Day in the Park)
So, I had intended to start slowly and kind of ease into the high level of arduous physical activity that I expected to be doing while I was out there…but…
Day Two of Yellowstone Trip (Arrival)
Here are some notes and thoughts that I jotted down about the second day of my trip, along with some pictures from the said day. This day basically consisted of…
First Day Of Yellowstone Trip
Okay, so posting some more pictures here, a few at a time and accompanied by varying amounts of narrative. These five are from the 1st day of the trip, on…
Beyond the Barricade (Tomorrow Comes!)
So, I'm about a week into what you might call my first "real" semester of taking classes at Metro State. Last semester I took a single class—a deeply frustrating and…
My School Volunteering Experience So Far
So, I'm not really sure how to feel in recent weeks about this school volunteering thing that I'm doing. I don't know that it's really going all that well…though maybe…
Slightly Embellished Account of Waterpark Mishap
Our day at Noah's Ark was highly enjoyable despite a bit of a mishap that we really should have been able to avoid. Here's the story: The day got off…
How Lost Should Have Ended?
Despite my frustration and disappointment with how Lost ended, I stand by my view that for almost its entire run, it was a fantastic show. There's no excuse for it…
Whining About Lost
Warning: This post may be a bit whiny. It's largely directed at stuff I've read online by writers, fans, and commentators whose take on the Lost series finale differed dramatically…
Bittersweet Parting With Satanic Mystery Meat
It's a sad, sad day; today, I threw away my beloved can of Deviled Spam. Given to me by one Justin T. Williams in honor of my high school graduation…
The Exhaustively Complete Saga of Our Trip to Yellowstone, Part IV: The End of the Trip, and an Adventure During the Voyage Home
Day Seven (Friday, July 3rd) Though it was much warmer when we got up in the morning on this, our last full day in Yellowstone, than it had been on…
The Exhaustively Complete Saga of Our Trip to Yellowstone, Part III: The Funnest Thing I Didn’t Do (and Other Stories)
Here's the next installment, recounting the events of the Wednesday & Thursday of our week in the park: Day Five (Wednesday, July 1st) One worthwhile tidbit that we actually did…
The Exhaustively Complete Saga of Our Trip to Yellowstone, Part II: Seeing the Sights
Here's part two, which recounts our first two days actually in the park: Day Three (Monday, June 29th) The first thing on our agenda for our first full day in…
The Exhaustively Complete Saga of Our Trip to Yellowstone, Part I: Getting There
Okay, I am finally ready to post (or at least start posting) my long-awaited account of our trip to Yellowstone! I wrote many pages, so I have decided to break…
Metaphorical Wagons and Educational Crossroads
So, I've decided to get back on the blogging wagon—though I'm not sure if blogging is a "wagon" in the sense of a "bandwagon," or if I am referencing the…