Roughly a month ago, my family flew 3,000+ miles from Maine to visit me in sunny California. My mother, step-father and brother landed in Sacramento and headed south on I-80 West. Once they settled into their hotel, we met up for a post-arrival, pre-travel-induced-passing-out dinner. Over various Italian foods, we caught up and discussed what it was we were to [...]
In late December of 2010, I happily took on the task of planning a bachelor party. The bachelor is a very good friend of mine from college. In preliminary discussions, it was determined that since all the gents who were going to be attending lived all over the country, we’d pick a single destination and let everyone figure out how [...]
Back in August of this year, Hokie & his lady Kelsey picked up and moved from Maine to California. You know I love road trips, so I made sure he let me repost his trip. Here it is, in tasty blog morsels. Enjoy! What follows is a quick daily journal of the happenings during a five day road trip across [...]
There were two very specific reasons I moved to Maine. The first, as I’ve mentioned several times before on PTV, has to do with the relieving of my overabundance of mind melting stress. The second is, of course, the silence. So when The Girlfriend and I took off for a day of hiking fun, my hopes of finding some pure [...]
Spring was definitely in the air last weekend in Maine, and I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to take advantage of warm temps and sunny skies. After hitting up a nice brunch, my friend Bryan and I set out for a leisurely hike on our local Portland Trails system at the Fore River Sanctuary.
Big cities always have something to hide. And when you think of the secrets of a big city, you usually imagine them to be bad secrets. But when it comes to Portland – Maine’s largest city – those secrets are more like hidden treasures. Not many people know about them, but those who do are among a very special group. [...]
From day 2 of my first S24O camping trip. Tuesday, September 22, 2009.
My first S24O camping trip was a mixed bag of complete success and utter failure. And I totally expected both. (For those who don’t know, S24O stands for “Sub-24-hour-Overnight” camping, where you get to a camping spot, usually by riding your bike, set up, eat dinner, chat by the campfire, sleep, then head in to work the next morning. The [...]
From the first day of my S24O camping trip. Monday, September 21, 2009.
Today I embark upon my first sub twenty-four hour camping trip, and although I’ve done zero preparation for this overnight stay, I’m upbeat and excited. It’s about 8:45 on Monday morning, and despite an allergy attack yesterday that had me laid up in bed, I’m ready to go with allergy meds and Breathe Right nasal strips. I will be a [...]
