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Sept 4, 2026

Bhutan

Bhutan was a country I had wanted to visit for years, and being back in the Himalayas made me realize how much I had missed them. It had been about ten years since Everest, and there was something surreal about returning to this part of the world. Bhutan was quiet, incredibly clean, and beautiful almost everywhere I looked. I was able to see the highest unclimbed mountain in the world, visit monasteries and other important religious sites, and spend time hiking through forests and valleys.

August 27, 2026

Peru

I’ve been slow to update, but I’m still traveling and climbing whenever I can. I’ve hit up a few countries over the past year, including Bhutan, India, and Bangladesh, along with a return to Peru for a failed attempt on Alpamayo. That was a bit disappointing. I consider it to be the most beautiful mountain in the world, but bad weather didn’t even allow me to touch the mountain since conditions clearly weren’t worth ascending to the higher camps. But I’ll be back one day!

Most importantly, I’ve started a major restoration of my website. I’ve already converted all 600+ pages to the same format, and I intend to update photos to higher resolution when available, catch up on a ton of places I’ve never had the time to add, and, more importantly, refocus on my mission to travel the whole world and share it.

August 12, 2025

Gannett Peak

Last month, I made a successful attempt up my last real mountain regarding my 50 state high points! I’ll say this was definitely more of a challenge than I expected, but it was absolutely wonderful to be back in the wilderness with a heavy backpack and ice ax in hand. The trip actually required an entire five days due to the very long approach, but was a wonderful adventure! Up next month is Scotland!

Jan 7, 2025

Guatemala

With nearly 110 countries visited, my decades long journey is finally taking me past the halfway mark! Traveling around the world would be so much easier if I could work remotely, and while there are a ton of such jobs on Jooble, for the immediate future I will have to stay local for personal reasons. My slow and steady progress however has landed me in several new countries recently, such as my trip to Guatemala, where I stayed in the colonial city of Antigua, hiked Volcan Fuego, among other adventures! Next up in February, may be a trip to the Amazon or back to the Sahara.

December 24, 2024

Malawi

In November I made it back to Africa, and did an amazing adventure to Malawi. I had wanted to visit Malawi for nearly ten years, fascinated by their culture, mountains, and the highlight of my trip, diving in one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world!

September 14, 2024

New Adventures & New Camera

Often I think I haven’t updated my site in weeks, and login to find out that it’s been several months. This time, somehow its been several years. While I haven’t stopped adventuring, I have to admit the online editing and posting feels much more time consuming than it used to be. In the past few years I’ve been everywhere from Morocco to Mongolia, with several other new countries in Europe and Central America. Maybe the biggest news was not the new countries but for the first time in nearly 15 years I got a new camera. A nice mirrorless Nikon that will replace my highly abused aging DSLR! Needless to say I’m excited to get back out into the wilderness and put it to use. Right now I’m trying to decide on a place in Africa in the next month or two, and in the mean time I’m looking forward to catching up my website!

March 29, 2022

Highest Point in Continental US

Once again it’s been some time since I posted any updates. While I haven’t done a great job posting I’ve not stopped traveling one bit. After Iraq I returned to the US to do ice climbing in Colorado, then just completed another high point after reaching the top of California. Next up is a trip to Europe, where I’ll likely try to visit Croatia this coming June.

September 3, 2021

100th Country!

I’ve always been a terrible blogger, not just my writing style but also my laziness in posting things. Most would consider a few weeks bad, but here I am nearly two years later without an update. I learned to travel a bit more within Virginia, and once things slowly got better I started doing my thing again. I’ve actually climbed Mt. Kenya, gone to Albania, North Macedonia, and Iceland, but have yet to share, but I will one day! For now I feel like 2022 should be back on track, and I am seriously planning to go to Iraq in March. This has been stopped by acts of god more times than I can remember, but this time I’ll do everything I can to make it happen. Next up though, is my 100th country, and of all places I’m going to… the Bahamas! This may just off the coast of Florida, but it has to do more with the timing of a rare, or first ever family trip? So if this will be my 100th country it makes sense to do something different. Once that’s done, I plan to do west Africa this fall, Iraq in March, and maybe if I’m feeling spoiled Madagascar next summer.