Travel Blog

We spent the weekend off the Mirror Lake Highway up in the High Uintas in Utah. Thought we would do a little camping, fishing and exploring while the summer was still peak in the mountains. Our group of 3 headed up early afternoon on Friday to Trial Lake, the last 30 minutes of driving up to the campsite it poured on us and was a little cold. Once we got to the site it rained off and on for a few hours while we set up and got situated. The rest of the evening ended up being

I haven't been back to Vanderhoof or anywhere in Canada for almost 5 years. We finally had a good excuse to go because we had a wedding to attend to. There isn't much better than a July in Vanderhoof so the whole family took an extra week or more to be around town before the wedding. The Trip Because it has been so long since I've been there I got a reminder of how beautiful Banff and Jasper National Parks are. Driving through the mountains I realized again that this specific

I double dipped spending time outside this weekend. I did some great fishing on Friday as well as a strenuous hike on Saturday. It felt great to just be outside on both occasions, got to be in my new truck and I always enjoy solo time outdoors and just time outside in general. Fishing at Currant Creek I started my weekend on Friday with a fishing trip to Currant Creek, a small, quiet creek in Utah that isn’t heavily pressured by anglers. This made it an ideal spot to enjoy so

Some of the family decided it was time to get the crew outside and do a trip to Arches National Park, especially because Landry, Mum and Dad have never seen delicate arch or anything in the park for that matter. We booked an AirBnb in Moab for the 9 of us and spent the weekend out there. Allie and I got in pretty early on Friday followed by the rest trickling in at different times during the evening. We spent all day in the park on Saturday doing the best hikes and viewpoint

Spent the weekend in St George and had some fun while we were down there. It was just a quick weekend trip but we filled our Saturday up. First thing we did was woke up and tried a new pastry shop that we heard was really good and it did not disappoint, usually I get pictures of that kindof stuff but we scarfed it down far too fast for any of that. We then went up to Snow Canyon State Park and did a few quick hikes there with Emmy in the backpack. She loved it and we saw som

I organized an off shore fishing trip for the boys when we were down in Cancun as a family and it was such a great time! We booked the boat for 6 hours and decided to start by targeting the trophy fish by trolling with a bunch of rods out baited and set up. A couple hours went by and we didnt get a single thing, we tried for another hour because I was really wanted a shot at a sailfish or something like that but it ended up not working out. After talking with the captain we

Spring break 2026 was a full family trip to Cancun Mexico. Everyone was there for different times but we all overlapped for about 5 days. Coleson and Katie got there on the first day followed the next day by Allie, Emelia and me and Caleb, Gabie and Hazel. Mom, Dad and Landry as well as Charlee and Bridger got there on day 3. The all inclusive resort was a blast and everyone had a blast. The food was pretty good and I had to have had over 50 drinks led by the piña colada. The

This was our 3rd year out in the winter for our campout/game drive. As per tradition we go out for a day and a half, sleep in a rough shelter (this time again at skull camp/skinwalker camp) and drive around looking for animals in the Bookcliffs. This year was a little different because we were scouting for shed spots and a little in the future because it is likely dad draws out this year. We stayed at Skinwalker Campsite again this year cause we have a nice spot set up and t

Over the last few months I have been able to go to a handful of games, a couple College Football games, an NBA game, an NHL game and a college basketball game as well. Had some good times at all of these and I thought it would be worth a post. BYU Football I usually have the chance to go to a couple BYU football games a year and I was able to do 2, a classic rivalry against Utah as well as an easy one against SMU. I only took one video of all of it because its fun to be there

Decided to go out and get some time out of the city one last time before it got too cold. We packed up and left late on Thursday night just in time to set up camp and get to bed around midnight, after a terrible night of sleep for the 3 of us we were eager to get up early. Emmy had a blast setting up tents in the Uinta Canyon dispersed camping, despite being up late and face-planting out of her backpack seat. She had her little ewok suit that kept her warm all weekend and sh

This has been a wild year and it is crazy that it is already August. Because of the new baby, the new job, taking care of the house and the car accident back in the beginning of the year totaling my Explorer, I have had a very hard time getting out into nature like I usually do and I miss it. We finally just went out and had a fantastic little weekend out in the mountains. We tried a new spot up by Roosevelt called Whiterocks Canyon. There is a river that comes out of the hi

This was genuinely one of the coolest things I have done. Sure it wasn't easy and it didn't help that I was vastly underprepared and my...

This will be my longest post yet because there is so much to cover, none of which really fits into any other sections like food reviews or photography. This was simply an adventurous hunting trip to the Limpopo province in South Africa. I am going to breaks this down into sections rather than days. I am going to skip over most of the travel because it was long and grueling both there and back. Lots of hours in a plane and just as many in airports. We flew into Polokwane, the

It was that time of the year again, anyone that is tough or dumb enough heads out to the desert for a winter campout and wildlife drive or 2. It was a good time this year, we headed out early Saturday and had ample time to set up a real camp this time and the shelter was great. Found a rare shaded campsite that we are dubbing skull camp or skinwalker camp. Between that., the fact that I was overpacked for sleep and the temperature being a bit warmer, I think we all kept warm

Took a business trip over to Texas. Most of my time was spend working but I had some time to poke around a bit, check out the Alamo and Riverwalk and got to eat at a few cool places for dinners. The City itself is not going to make my top 10 Cities in the US list, in fact it'll be quite a ways down on the all time list, so much so that I don't think I'll ever be visiting again. There were some cool parts like the Riverwalk itself and the Alamo but overall was kindof a mess.

For the 3rd year in a row we went out to Uinta Canyon for a campout on the Jensen side. It was a bit shorter this year and we only stayed for 2 nights over the weekend. Had some great time just hanging around the fire and chilling like usual. We spent far more time out fishing this time around. I went out 3 different times for a few hours each and caught quite a bit of trout and a couple pretty nice ones. I caught around 10 fish, a pile of smaller and beautiful brook trout, a

One of the highlights of the trip was our time in Ungatni. First off it was crazy how different Kenya can be, from the amazing beaches to the African savannah Kenya is quite diverse. The lodge itself is located right off the Tsavo East National Park and is situated right by a watering hole that constantly draws in wildlife. It was really cool to see all the classic Africa animals you see while listening to David Attenborough. Elephants, Zebras, Giraffes and everything in bet

On one of our days on the coast we took a day trip to an underwater national park. Around Wasini Island is a park with shallow sand bars that are uncovered at low tide as well as piles of coral reefs and thousands of fish. It was a crazy experience getting out there, the boat looked like it barley floated and I'm pretty sure it was 300 years old. When you mix that with a motor that needed its spark plugs replaces on the water and the fact that there were some pretty good wav

Once we made our way through the cities and villages we finally made it to our place of refuge, The Monkey Beach House on Diani Beach. I can honestly say, this was one of the coolest and nicest places I have ever stayed and one of the coolest vacation villas anyone could ask for. Huge beach house, our own pool and all on a beach that might be one of the nicest beaches in the world (and I have seen some sweet beaches). The Indian Ocean was really warm and the tide changes we

Finally got the crew to Kenya. After hearing about Kenya for a few years now, I finally had the chance to go myself with the whole family. Getting there and back is an experience all to itself, and not in such a good way. It takes forever to get over there as it is almost exactly half way around the world. But there were a few small mentionable things in the travel itself: The Doha Qatar airport was awesome Got to see Mt Kilimanjaro from the window of our last flight to Momb