Greggle Goes West

Because there’s a $700 surcharge to rent a car in Montana and return it in Canada, I come to you tonight from Calgary. Let me explain...

A wise man once told me of the drop bear. A fearsome, yet rarely seen, beast, the drop bear lives among the trees, waiting to strike an...

After yesterday’s crazy hiking shenanigans, this morning came as a warning from each of our bodies that we daren’t try that again lest th...

While it wasn’t covered in cheese, it was still the main event on today’s schedule. But before I get to that, there is much scenic drivin...

 North Carolina comes through again. Having trudged through 200 miles of fog yesterday all through Virginia – your remember Virginia:...

Nova Scotia, you’ve been holding out on me. After today, it’s clear that you’ve just been teasing me – showing me your less attractive feat...

Today, my 3-day adventure to the land of the Mainiacs ended in grand fashion, with the best weather (and not coincidentally, the best pictu...

Finally. After a week of delays, my Great Dixie Adventure culminated with a visit to Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, which was onc...

Most of the time, I love my Copina Jr. She reliably gets me from point A to point B, only ever getting confused at times when it do...

“Caution: mountain weather changes rapidly.” If you spend enough time perusing any National Park Service webpage you’re bound to come acr...

In the immortal words of The Lion King ’s Rafiki, “It is time.” Six months to the day since crossing the Delaware Water Gap and retunin...

Sitting east of Cleveland , a mere 450 miles from my parents’ house in New Jersey , I feel it’s time to pay homage to the true unsung hero o...

The day I was offered my new teaching job, I immediately went home and started booking hotels for this trip. My general goal was to pay some...

As I’ve said before, there are certain things about the natural world that some take as fact, but of which I deny the very existence. No, I’...

Let’s say that this trip is like a relay race on Field Day in elementary school. If that’s the case, then today I touched the cone on the fa...

As I began the second half of my journey, instead of focusing on geographic and geologic features, today was almost entirely about life. Spe...

This has been quite a day. A long day. An eventful day. An exciting day. A great day. In every sense, a day of extremes.

Today was another transition day but unfortunately I don’t have anything nearly as profound to say as I did on Monday . This morning, after...

Thus announced one of the many county welcome signs I passed today. And it was right. Today’s’ vistas were exactly what I had imagined when ...