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On Planning
If you don’t have a burning preference for where you make camp and you don’t have young children to worry about then you can still wing it daily in a pre Covid style, wandering aimlessly around the country planning only where to go each day while already on your way. However, if you desire to…
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Scavenger The Elder
The best photographer I know is Scavenger The Elder. We met while hiking the Appalachian trail and became tramily fairly quickly and nine years later I am lucky to call him one of my best friends. Whenever he visits, it feels like I just had a professional photographer follow us around documenting my family growing…
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Newport, RI
When Amy and I first moved across the country, we realized one of the major drawbacks was that we had no family to spend Thanksgiving with. We decided to distract ourselves we would get a cheap cabin out in the woods and relax together to celebrate in a whole new way. It was perhaps our…
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Parker Dam State Park, PA
With endless places to explore in central Pennsylvania we decided to hike at one of our beautiful state parks. When Amy isn’t drooling over strange geology she ogles over strange weather events. So today I dove deep into the maps to find her both. In 1985 a rare massive f5 tornado whirled through this area…
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Gettysburg, PA
One of my favorite spots to visit on Earth happens to sit a mere 2.5 hours away from home and I intend to visit every chance I can get. Amy snapped this beautiful picture of General Meade in the early morning hours during her run. Every time I visit, I leave feeling better about the…
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Mile High Magic, Denver, CO
It would be an understatement to say that we got to experience an amazing finish. In fact, a team who is winning by 18 points with six minutes to play has won the last 1,602 straight games. The 33 point fourth quarter is the largest comeback from zero points ever and the second most points…
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Gettysburg, PA
When Robert E. Lee decided to push north into Pennsylvania, it was inevitable that a huge clash between the great armies of the North and South was imminent. With the Army of the Potomac in pursuit of Lee and a fair amount of the fog of war on both sides, the armies, more or less,…
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Beaver Stadium, PA
By any measure, I live in the middle of nowhere. It takes me nearly 30 minutes to get to a grocery store, which makes it absolutely wild that we live equally far from the second largest football stadium in America. The fandom from Penn State fans is equally impressive as it is terrifying. Our small…
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Gallitzin State Forest
John P. Saylor spent 23 years fighting to protect what was left of our country’s wilderness. As a Republican serving in our state congress he sponsored both the National Scenic Trail Act and the National Wilderness Preservation system, becoming one of the great conservationists in Pennsylvania history. These bills and bills like these have a…
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Fotos by Fitz
“Daddy, quick give me your phone, this is sooooo beautiful.” Occasionally something just strikes Fitz’s fancy and he feels compelled to photograph the beauty he sees in his head. I’m not so sure he always captures the inspiration as he sees it but neither can I. These are some of the moments that, for whatever…
The Trail Nerds 