Category: Travel Journal

My 2024 began and ended in the same building: The Guardian hangar at Escanaba. Looking back helps me count my blessings of the year and keep the spark alive to…

Well its Amy’s birthday and of course we are traveling. This time she chose Austin and Waco Texas. We flew into Austin and got our car. Amy was excited to…

November has me traveling again, this time to South Dakota. The base I worked at is on the Indian Reservation in Rosebud. My first shift day was Thanksgiving Day. My…

Fort Liberty has a small museum packed with history on post. The JFK Special Warfare Museum is in an unassuming brick building on the base. For years I have been…

Ja-‘Merican – thats what our driver called us after learning how many years and visits we have had to the island. Not gonna lie, I was kinda touched by the…

I have been trying to motivate myself to get out and explore more around me. So I searched around on Google Maps and looked for something that interested me. This…

Wait!? This is your third visit in less than a year?! Yeah….. so I can explain…. So we had planned a family vacation in July, asked off for work and…

One of the things we do as a family is try to make memories rather than collect stuff for birthdays, Christmas etc. This month is my son’s 15th birthday and…

About a 2 hour drive from where I’m working is Wrightsville Beach. I was on a night shift run and needed to get away from the base of operations for…

Fort Liberty, NC (formerly Fort Bragg) is home to several Army Airborne divisions and Special Forces groups. History and more specifically military history is fascinating to me so this was…