The resulting awe and inspiration from the grandeur of nature will be the same in any case.Pollyanna McIntosh as Jadis – The Walking Dead: World Beyond _ Season 2, Episode 9 – Photo Credit: Steve Swisher/AMC The main idea is that one can start easy and increase the challenges as desire and comfort dictate. We are also not about long-haul trips into the backcountry or more extreme wilderness adventures (although I love watching videos and reading about them). While there can be significant preparation involved, we don’t try to take on the logistics and navigation for areas in which extensive expertise and local knowledge are required. We do cover some fantastic extended wilderness outings but these are all guided. Our attention is mainly on day-level excursions of varying types and intensity, with a return to comfortable lodging each night. We aim to share our stories, learnings, and images to help other wilderness newcomers experience the joy that we have found. With this as background, the purpose of our Website comes into sharp focus (ha ha).
I even became a photography enthusiast because of the limited chances to be able to capture these images of unparalleled splendor. More such trips are planned, including a family excursion through Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, as well as a subsequent immersion in the astonishing terrain of Southern Utah. I had a similar father-son bonding experience with Jeremy as we traveled through the incredible Everglades and Florida Keys. Janet and I spent a magical two weeks in and around the Grand Canyon in a much more impactful way than we had ever imagined. In each succeeding year we’ve taken several more trips to immerse ourselves in the wonders of nature. Now that I’ve become that passionate believer in whom others see the maniacal pitchman, I remind Alex that all of this is his fault. Janet & Craig at Toroweap overlooking Lava Falls rapid almost 2 milesĪway, which we had rafted the previous day (Grand Canyon, June 2019) In June 2018, we rafted though the Grand Canyon for a week and then drove through Death Valley to Yosemite for some epic hiking. Then, one day, I surprised myself by suddenly thinking, why not? I was entering my sixties and I realized that the window on a bonding opportunity like this could close quickly as I got older and Alex got a little further into adulthood. In the years that followed, Alex would hound me often about the trip, insisting that I had somehow promised this to him. Didn’t supporting his education count as the gift? Not only that, but somehow he thought I should make this trip a gift to him for graduating with a certain GPA (which he could predict within a few hundredths of a point anyway since he was in his last term). My reaction was less than enthusiastic I had been perfectly happy laying on a beach and letting the ocean lull me to sleep.
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To me, he seemed a bit like a crazed late-night TV pitchman selling Ginsu knives, with all his babbling about the canyons, mountains, and big sky.Īs he approached his senior year, Alex got the notion that I should join him on an epic father-son road trip so he could show me what he had seen. He would return from these excursions fired up as I had never seen him. While we were all occasionally relaxing in paradise, during college Alex was also taking road trips, driving from our home on the east coast to the western states. Once or twice, my wife and I did discuss a vague mutual desire to visit the Grand Canyon though it always remained an undefined event somewhere beyond the horizon of our lives. In fact, until very recently I thought a carabiner was an admirer of the Caribbean. Yet my travels were always about business, culture and relaxation. I’m incredibly grateful to have had all of these wonderful times in such places. Later, as my sons Jeremy and Alex grew older, and I settled down with my new wife Janet, and extended family, we created fresh memories cruising through tropical islands and dreaming the time away on the beautiful beaches of the mid-Atlantic coast.
In my late twenties I took an assignment to live in Japan for six months, which gave me an invaluable perspective of the world. I’ve seen amazing architecture and history, and have met people from many walks of life. My work for international businesses provided the opportunity to visit countries and cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. I’ve had the good fortune to enjoy a lifetime of travel that has given me priceless experiences. Until a few years ago I was the same way. Craig at the start of the Half Dome cables
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