album review: carsie blanton – buck up

Do I remember how to review a record? Let’s find out. Josh Ritter put an album out this past April. Frank Turner has one out in August. I love Fever Breaks. I love the songs from No Man’s Land. It’s rare for one of those two songwriters to put out a record and not have…

life list: get a passport

93. Get a passport. I’d entirely forgotten I put this on my life list 9 years ago, but I finally got around to it this year. We even visited Canada! They didn’t look at our passports at all.

nswl soccer: reign fc @ nc courage

We put our post-World Cup money where our mouths were and drove out to Cary on Saturday night to see the 2nd place NC Courage take on the table-leading Reign FC. Both teams sent a bunch of players to the World Cup (including, of course, America’s Darling Megan Rapinoe for the Reign, and five from…

alaska: travel, photography, and other things i think about

Trav bought a camera before our trip to Alaska. Nevermind that my husband, the love of my life, my partner in all things, bought a Canon, of all cameras he could buy – I have a Nikon tattooed on myself, I don’t have his name tattooed anywhere, that is how serious I am about Nikons,…

alaska and seattle: resources

Some of the links below are Amazon Affiliate links. This means if you buy the product, I receive a small payment. It helps me pay bills, and you get products I personally speak for! Places to go and how to plan! Whenever I want to have an adventure, one of the first places I go…

alaska: wildlife

Alaska has people. Alaska also has wild things. I liked both. The top bald eagle was wild, lurking in the trees at the Alaska Rainforest Center. He kept turning away from me and I might have threatened to fight him if he didn’t look at me, you can’t prove anything. The bottom two birds were…

hot dogs everywhere: on a cruise ship

(The white balance on this is unfixable. Whoops.) Where: on the Star Princess What: a hot dog with cheese and guacamole With whom: Me myself and I Why: there was a grill on the same deck as our room, so I ate their specialty dog every day. I didn’t take pictures of the others because…

alaska: skagway

Skagway was great. It was an early docking, and we only had an afternoon excursion – next time back we will definitely make a trip to both the Slide Cemetery and Jewell Gardens – and it was the only day where I almost felt we had enough time. We did go dog-sledding in Skagway, though,…