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January and February 2024

January 2024 started in Queenstown, New Zealand, with an awesome New Year’s Eve celebration I’ll never forget, and on New Year’s Day, we toured glaciers by helicopter and had a picnic atop a mountain next to said helicopter, and it was awesome. A few days later, it was time to fly back home and get back to work, but I visited my parents in Guntersville, Alabama, participated in my annual Hike Inn…

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On the way 💯🙏🏾 #travelingmoments https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XZksqJr8c/?igshid=1scttm16rhuy7

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Burning Sensation #ShalehsLimitlessBoundaries⚓✈🚂🚊🚕 #appleiPhone6splus #pitikniShaleh #travelingmoment #agave #wheninHongKong #lateupload @agavecantina (at Agave Wan Chai HK) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9ftXBFSV3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=neotdq9za2hb

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I'm coming home. Tell the world I am coming home. #travelingmoment #seoul (at Hong Kong International Airport, Gate 65)

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4 days in Las Vegas

4 days in Las Vegas

When an organization whose Board you’re on schedules its annual conference in Las Vegas, you sign up for the tax-deductible vacation. When you find out an artist you’ve loved for 35+ years has a very rare live performance at the same time, you go early and make it a weekend to remember for life. So, that’s what I did right before Halloween 2018.

We landed late Friday night and checked in at…

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August 2021 in 31 seconds

August 2021 in 31 seconds

August. We went back to school and continued with Zoom meetings, yes, but we also dived Loch Low-Minn, kayaked the Hiwassee, mountain biked in north GA, threw axes, starting rucking, and saw our first concert in…forever! Here is it is 31 seconds:

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a very Covid south Floridian spring break

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We pushed through a port-o-john door covered in stickers, walked past the urinals, and entered the hidden bar behind Bodega Taqueria for what I’d thought would be a quiet speakeasy like the ones we’ve visited in Denver, San Francisco, Austin, Atlanta, Rome, Paris, Kyoto, Boston, New York, Chicago, and San Antonio. Instead, it was a giant, warehouse-like enclosure with a DJ and dancing. It was a…

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Dose response curve 〰 #ShalehsLimitlessBoundaries⚓✈🚂🚊🚕 #appleiPhone6splus #pitikniShaleh #travelingmoment #klia2 #wheninMalaysia #lateupload @airasia @gatewayklia2 (at KLIA2 International Departure Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9cN_-lDfx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c2ei3ojsima

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a roadtrip to America's newest National Park

a roadtrip to America's newest National Park! #findyourpark #travelingMoes

About 6 months ago, I found a great deal to Salt Lake City, went online and saw that Park City’s ski slopes were set to open on November 19, and secured 5 Delta tickets, a couple Marriott hotel rooms, and 5 Epic ski passes. November 17, we learned the opening of ski season in Utah would be postponed due to warmer than anticipated climate. So, instead of flying to SLC on Friday the 19th, we drove…

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Zion National Park

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I have a National Parks bucket list, and hiking The Narrows and Angels Landing at Zion National Park have been near the top of said list for at least as long as there’s been an Instagram. We concluded our tour of the Utah National Parks with visiting my most anticipated of the 5: Zion.

We arrived in the evening and parked by a deer-filled lawn before checking into the Zion National Park Lodge

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Bryce Canyon National Park during Covid-19

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I’ve had some amazing experiences at the 33 U.S. National Parks I’ve visited: rock climbing in Yosemite, biking through snow above the Grand Canyon, paddling under snakes at Congaree, hearing a ceremonial flute serenade at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde. At Bryce Canyon, however, I had 2 experiences that rival the best of the best.

Like Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon is an international dark sky…

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Socially Distant Utah at Capitol Reef National Park

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We awoke at Capitol Reef, Utah’s least visited of its 5 national parks, and had a lousy breakfast at Pioneer Kitchen before going by the visitor center for junior ranger workbooks and hiking the 2.25-miles-each-way Grand Wash trailin the bottom of a canyon with 800′ sandstone walls. It was hot as Hell in July, but it included cool graffiti from the 1800s where folks in covered wagons carved their…

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Socially Distant Utah, from Canyonlands to Capitol Reef

new post: Socially Distant Utah, from Canyonlands to Capitol Reef

We stopped at Lin Ottinger’s Moab Rock Shopon our way out of Moab, where we saw dinosaur fossils and gems from all over the world strewn about dusty shelves both inside and outside the store. A Japanese man interviewed the elderly shop owner as a lighting crew and cinematographer followed. We were just there so my 11yo could get a souvenir gift for his best friend. I picked up petrified wood book…

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days 13 and 14 in Japan: an earthquake and the Park Hyatt Hotel

days 13 and 14 in Japan: an earthquake and the Park Hyatt Hotel

I awoke the Monday after Fathers Day to this Facebook message from one of our Tokyo karate instructors:  Did you feel the earthquake? Are you okay?  My nightmare from our first night in Japan had come true.

Luckily, we’d missed it by a day, as it occurrednear Osaka, and we were in Miyajima.  However, our trip’s longest Shinkansen ride–from Hiroshima to Tokyo–was supposed to occur that day and…

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day 2 in Kyoto, Japan: the Golden Pavilion, the Silver Pavilion, and hiking Mt. Inari

day 2 in Kyoto, Japan: the Golden Pavilion, the Silver Pavilion, and hiking Mt. Inari

Wednesday, June 13 began with hot coffee at McDonald’s in Kyoto, because that was the only place I could quickly find hot coffee in our new ‘hood (we also had fried meat on a stick from a nearby street vendor).  By 9:45, we were at the “Golden Pavilion” — Kinkau-ji Temple.  Covered in gold leaf on 2 floors, it was built by a Shogun as a retirement villa, but willed to become a Zen temple after…

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our first day in Kyoto, Japan: Kiyomizu-dera Temple and more ramen

our first day in Kyoto, Japan: Kiyomizu-dera Temple and more ramen

We awoke on Tuesday, June 12 to a kaiseki breakfast brought into our room while we sat in our yukatas (i.e., pajamas).  After our meal, we made our way down to the bus stop, which took us to the train station for the 3-hour train ride toward Kyoto.  But before getting to Kyoto, we got off the train, shoved our bags into lockers, and then walked into the local area by the Odawaratrain station,…