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31 days in: exploring America through sidewalk astronomy

Support my mission to bring free sidewalk astronomy to towns across the United States: Venmo or PayPal. I left Bradenton, Florida 31 days ago on May 19th, bound for Idaho where I had a series of conferences lined up to keynote. My journey since then has covered 10 states and a dozen towns, driving as far west as Portland, Oregon before swooping back over to northern Idaho. This is a first for…

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My first drone ambience film! Taking you across central to northern Arizona.

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Red Arizona: my first drone ambience video

For nearly two decades, whenever I’m writing or editing my books, I put on ambience videos in the background to help get my mind into a creative flow. Now with a drone, I’ve been able to take videos from the sky that have allowed me to create my own ambience videos and, in some ways, “carry forward” what I have personally used for years and years. The video itself is about 17.5 minutes long.…

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Goodbye Sedona, hello Idaho

As I write this, it’s Saturday morning, June 7th. My final day in Sedona. I arrived Monday to a wonderfully moody town amongst the canyons as clouds spilled over the mountaintops and the aurora hidden behind the haze, and am leaving on a bright and warm day after dozens of miles hiked and sharing the Moon through my telescope with hundreds of people. I first visited Sedona on a family road trip…

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Walking the Little Bell

Just beside Bell Rock in Sedona.

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Day 17 of 111 of traveling west, hosting sidewalk astronomy, and speaking at conferences in Idaho.

Another one from a different trail, this time across the valley I was on the opposite side of yesterday. Hoping skies get and stay clear today so we can FINALLY look at the Moon 🤪

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Saguaro National Park Adventures: My Wallen Peak Experience

This post is the fifth in my “Every picture, every story” series detailing my 5 weeks of road trips in the summer of 2024. Some dates will be skipped, grouped, or abbreviated due to unrelated events happening on those days, such as conferences or extensive road travel. Read previous post I arrived in Tucson, Arizona in the middle of the night, driving past the city on my way north to the hotel…

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The first 10% of my road trip: Florida to Arizona

Just like that, 10% of my journey west is complete. I’ve already traveled 2700 miles and camped for a week, and this is still only the front end. There are still 100 days (at minimum) to go before I decide if I want to settle or stay on the road. I left Florida fairly late in the day on May 19th, just after noon, and arrived in Gulfport, Mississippi around 9:15pm local time. Following that brief…

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Hidden within a mountain in New Mexico

This post is the fourth in my “Every picture, every story” series detailing my 5 weeks of road trips in the summer of 2024. Some dates will be skipped, grouped, or abbreviated due to unrelated events happening on those days, such as conferences or extensive road travel. Read previous post The first National Park of my June 2024 road trip was Carlsbad Caverns, located in southern New Mexico. I…

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Welcome to Roswell

This post is the third in my “Every picture, every story” series detailing my 5 weeks of road trips in the summer of 2024. Some dates will be skipped, grouped, or abbreviated due to unrelated events happening on those days, such as conferences or extensive road travel. Read previous post What. A. Town. I arrived in Roswell on June 2nd. We all grew up hearing the infamous stories of a UFO…

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The first 22 days: traveling west and hosting sidewalk astronomy

This post covers the first 22 of 111 days of my departure from Florida as I venture toward a new life in the Pacific Northwest. The teal bookmarks trace my path in the first 22 days of my journey west I depart Florida in 3 days. Though I did an extended trip in 2024, this one is different. While I had a home to return to last year, such is not the case this year. There is no loop. There is no…

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Roseatte Spoonbill at Celery Fields

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Solar energy on the go

This post is the second in my “Every picture, every story” series detailing my 5 weeks of road trips in the summer of 2024. Some dates will be skipped, grouped, or abbreviated due to unrelated events happening on those days, such as conferences or extensive road travel. Read last week’s entry My 2016 Kia Soul carried me on the first of three road trips in the summer of 2024. The previous year,…

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Farewell to Sidewalk Astronomy in St. Pete

Tomorrow is supposed to be my final day of sidewalk astronomy in St. Pete, but the forecast is working against us. Being deep within the annual transitional period the Gulf Coast experiences throughout April and early May, I knew chances of a clear night for the send-off were drastically dropping the further into May we got – and it seems the weather is against us. While I do have a rain date…

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Embarking with my smile as a mask

This post is the first in my “Every picture, every story” series detailing my 5 weeks of road trips in the summer of 2024. Some dates will be skipped, grouped, or abbreviated due to unrelated events happening on those days, such as conferences or extensive road travel. This is me on May 31st 2024, minutes from departing on my 6,000-mile road trip across the United States to Arizona for 20 days.…

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Spread Pelican 8x12 Photo Print