For Spring Break 2014, we decided to head up North to see some friends and family. Our first stop was to see some friends in Brooklyn Saturday night. Sunday morning we headed to Manhattan to explore the Highline park. It was a creative use of abandoned train tracks that provided a unique view of the…
Raleigh to Durham on the Greenway
On a recent holiday weekend, we set out on a mission to ride from Raleigh to Durham! We had a nice break in the weather and wanted to see if we could make it almost entirely via greenway. We also had some nice motivation – donuts! We started on the Rocky Branch Greenway .2 miles…
Gulf Coast and Atlanta
During late October I headed down to the Gulf Coast to collect Atlantic White Cedar cones for work. I started outside of Jacksonville FL on the Ocala National Forest. While I found no white cedar I did find some stunningly turquoise water filled with large jumping mullet at the Juniper Springs Recreation Area. Near this…
Motorcycle Camping Mt Morrow NC
We finally got the motorcycles running consistently and decided to take our first longer/overnight trip. The original plan was to head up to Hanging Rock State Park and meet up with the Luczak’s for some early fall camping, Unfortunately many others had the same idea and we were unable to find any campsites open at…
Guatemala and Mexico August 2013
The second half of August I got to spend 10 days in Guatemala in Mexico for work. The purpose of the trip was to meet with forestry members and talk about their work with teak and possible ways to collaborate with my masters project. The first week we were based in Guatemala City and visited…
Sonoma
We decided to end our trip to California with a visit to wine country. For our first visit we chose the smaller Sonoma Valley over Napa. Sonoma was a relaxing and enjoyable way to end our nearly two weeks in northern California. We walked around the plaza and explored the most northern mission in…
Santa Cruz
After spending the day before in Monterey and the day in Big Sur, we decided to try another coastal city. Santa Cruz was intriguing because of the surf and skate culture. Our initial thoughts were of a west coast Myrtle Beach when arriving at the boardwalk. Since we were there, we saw a sky ride…
Big Sur
After several days of hiking around the wilderness of northern California we drove over to Big Sur to enjoy the famous the scenery. Big Sur lived up the hype but felt a bit overcrowded when driving down route 1, granted we were visiting just after July 4th. Some of the highlights of our day at…
Monterey
After a few days in the desert and mountains of California, we headed back to the coast. The 6 hour drive from Lone Pine to Monterey gave us the opportunity to see new parts of California, such as glimpses of Salinas Valley the “salad bowl of the world” and the largest mission in California in…
Mt Whitney
After visiting the lowest elevation in the United States and the location of the hottest verified temperature on Earth we decided to drive just over 100 miles west to the highest elevation in the contiguous US. The plan was to sleep in Lone Pine around 3700 feet above sea level, wake up at 300 am,…
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