With our National Park business concluded in southern Florida (at least for the time being), we started driving north along the incredibly flat and open roads towards Lake Okeechobee, the life-preserving reservoir of the Everglades (and southern Florida). We could … Read More

Just east of the Everglades (and just beneath the surface of the water) lies Biscayne National Park. Established in 1980, this relatively young park is home to an entirely different kind of biodiversity than its relative to the west. Just … Read More

Having taken two days to wander down Florida’s gulf coast and its southern reaches, I was not necessarily impressed by the care with which the state has protected its natural spaces. Just as the dwarves of Moria had delved too … Read More

As Cami and I drove north up the east coast of Florida, she started researching worthy eats in Jacksonville. Via Happy Cow and Google, we found a few magnificent choices. The first was Sun-Ray Cinema, which touted vegan nachos, vegan … Read More

After retrieving Sam from the shop, Cami and I stuffed all of our belongings into the various nooks and crannies I had created by reorganizing over the past week. As we packed, the steady rain slowed to a mist. With … Read More

Hello Internet! First of all, I just want to clarify that I am alive and well. In fact, I am having a blast! As I explained during the New York City and Boston sections of my trip, I made a … Read More

Having successfully concluded my east coast tour of urban America, I felt overdue for some time in the clear skies and dense forests of the Shenandoah Valley. Less than a hundred miles south of the Battlefield of Antietam, I turned … Read More

After spending a day wandering the fields of Gettysburg, I moved west from Baltimore towards Antietam. Although I would end my day deep in the Shenandoah Mountains, I spent the morning peering into the depths of Miller’s cornfield, looking over Burnside … Read More

In the summer of 2014, I led a bike trip from Amsterdam to Venice. Over the course of four weeks, my group passed through some of the most contested territory of WWI and WWII. The land was pockmarked with the … Read More