Global Discovery Tour 2022

We drove in to Seronera thinking it was a town. We were wrong. Seronera is a small collection of buildings with vague purposes and...

Continuing across the Serengeti we were once again immersed in the Great Migration. Today, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of...

The journey from Lake Manyara to Ngorogoro Crater was like driving from one planet to another. The dry savannah of the Arusha region...

We came rolling out of Luxor a little banged up. Jason’s stomach was still staging a rebellion, and I had gotten a little more sun that...

If you’ve dreamed of visiting the great sites of Egypt, I am now able to assure you that they are absolutely as mind-blowingly awesome as...

As my flight touched down in Cairo at about 2:00 this morning I flipped on my phone and the first thing I see is a text from James asking...

The plan for our GDT around the world tour has undergone a revision or two along the way. The “original” plan (aka. The earliest version...

In a move that indicates both the kindness of their hearts and the questionable nature of their judgement, my good friend Dan and his...

It’s Super Bowl Sunday and we just walked in to what seems like L.A. Rams Headquarters at Timbers Jupiter. The concierge team here has...

After spending the first 7 years of my life bouncing around overseas, we moved to Hilton Head Island in the Lowcounty of South Carolina...

When stories are told of adventures and antics in the British Virgin Islands, a great many of them start, end, or run through the Soggy...

Sailing the British Virgin Islands is always an incredible experience. The waters conspire to show you a limitless number of greens and...

Right now it’s a dark, starry night and we are bobbing gently off the coast of St. John. Everyone has gone to sleep and it’s time to wind...

Flying in to St. Thomas, your first glimpse of land is a beautiful collection of bays, beaches, and a couple of small cays just off of...

In Hawaiian culture, the Hi’u Wai is a ceremony held in the morning for the purpose of starting the day with a clear mind. I’ve been very...

Leaving home. It’s a transition we’ve all made in various forms. Leaving for the day to go to work or go to play. Leaving for college to...

As James and I started getting more and more serious about this whole “take a year off and see the world” concept, I kept running in to a...

The most romanticized version of the concept is the American idea of the Australian “Walkabout”. The most organized effort may be how the...