A bit of fun with the drone at Salmon Creek today…
Author: Sam
Wood Weekend
Getting ready for winter, many hands make light work!
Blood, Bones and Butter
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton Really enjoyed this (thanks Liza!), although the chaos that seems to follow […]
Drone-ing
Wild Man’s uber-generous grandparents gifted him a new machine for his recent birthday. He’s been 110% focused on learning how to use it for the […]
Noise
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein It was okay, some interesting tidbits but Kahneman has definitely lost some […]
Last Week of Summer in Arnold
It’s been a very busy summer break for us, but it would be blasphemous for the kids to go back to school without our traditional […]
Burnt
Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire, Clare Frank Fast and fun read, really enjoyed it especially given it’s so close to home… Goodreads: Burnt is […]
Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and a Rodeo
We were up and at ’em early from our campsite alongside Hebgen Lake with the GPS set to what is arguably Yellowstone National Park’s most […]
The Race to Be Myself
The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir, Caster Semenya Goodreads: Banned from the sport she loved because she was labelled ‘different’, Olympic and World Champion […]
Cascade and Big Sky
July of 2012 was the last time we were in Cascade at Aunt Cheryl and Tio Nelson’s house on the Missouri River. Lilia was 15 […]
Missoula, Lakeside and Glacier National Park
After our morning hike and soak in Goldbug Hot Springs we motored north on Highway 93, eventually climbing up Lost Trail Pass to cross the […]
Twin Falls and the Sawtooth Mountains
For some reason, Wild Man had it on his agenda to visit Montana this summer. I’m still not 100% sure why… Maybe it’s the big […]
Donner Summit and a Truckee River Float
Mum said it just wouldn’t be summer if we didn’t squeeze in a Truckee River float, so we started our big road trip with a […]
The Wager
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann Goodreads: On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed […]
Istanbul
Istanbul is such a crossroads of the world: Turkey is one of the few countries on the planet with its main territory straddling two continents […]
A Wedding in Mcely
Finally, the event that was the genesis of our summer Europe adventures: Oliver and Veronika’s wedding in the rural village of Mcely in eastern Czechia. […]
Prague
After an almost sleepless flight across the Atlantic via Istanbul, Mum finally joined us in Prague and was greeted with lots of big hugs from […]
Brno
I do love traveling around Europe by train. It’s so easy rolling into the station a few minutes before departure, no security checks, hop into […]
Budapest
From Riga it was a short hop on an Air Baltic flight to Hungary’s capital. Budapest is an incredibly grand city, with Buda Castle and […]
Riga and Western Latvia
It was quite a pretty drive along the coast from Tallinn to Latvia’s capital on a luxurious (and cheap!) Lux Express coach: endless forests of […]