As aloof and “who cares” as I try to be about people’s lame celebrity sightings (you know the kind… always posting to various social accounts about who they just happened to run into)… when I found out HBO’s Big Little Lies was filming in town – in my neighborhood, no less! – I was the…
Celebrating Tsagaan Sar in the USA… Lunar New Year, Mongolia Style!
Tsagaan Sar. It’d be cool to say that we spent this Mongolian holiday actually in Mongolia, but that wasn’t in the cards, so… we got the next best thing (truth be told, maybe even better). Our friends invited us over for their Mongolian Lunar New Year celebration! And lemme tell ya, Mongols don’t mess around…
2 Parks, 3 Days, 5 Critters: Wildlife Encounters in Mount Rushmore and Badlands National Park
Coincidentally, I’ve had several conversations about South Dakota in just the last couple days. Both the Badlands and Mount Rushmore have come up in conversations with different friends, so, of course, I took the opportunity to brag about the kick-ass, up-close-and-personal wildlife encounters I had at both! And since today is the UN’s 5th annual…
Coffee with Chickens, Cocktails with Chicks… Only in Key West
Key West, baby! We’d finally made it to the bottom of the 120-mile string of islands that make up the Florida Keys. After wildlife encounters in Fort Lauderdale, Key Largo, and Islamorada, we were excited to see what Key West had to offer. So… do feral animals count as wildlife?? Bear with me, trying to…
Tarpons and Tourist Traps: Robbie’s Marina in Islamorada, Florida
We reluctantly said goodbye to our Key Largo manatee before driving on to the next stop on our Florida Keys roadtrip… Islamorada, baby! Once again, no set plans to do anything, we were just gonna figure it out as we went. This trip was all about casual discovery, not set schedules. As Corrie and I crossed…
