New Zealand may be the epicenter of Lord of the Rings tourism, but I recently visited a Shire in a more unexpected country... Guatemala....

I went to California once as a kid. I remember the Hollywood Star Walk, the plethora of animals at the San Diego Zoo, and having my...

Let me tell you about one of my best friends! Jackie and I met our sophomore year of high school at Walsh Jesuit, and it was a friendship...

It seemed that out of nowhere a few years back, everyone in Ohio all of a sudden decided they wanted to up and move to Colorado (totally...

The rest of the South Island post-Queenstown was just kind of a rush up the east coast. I didn’t have a lot of interest in the...

I feel like this would be a good opportunity for that Boromir "One does not simply walk into Mordor" meme because seriously, one does NOT...

Considering that I have now been living in Scotland for 10 months, I have done a very poor job of documenting any of that on this blog....

Hiking, wildlife, & nature in one of the most gorgeous places in the world. Tasmania is Australia's little island state south of...

I want to start with a story of genuine human kindness before I delve into some of the debauchery of the Christmas holidays (not all of...