As the fourth largest country in the world, the United States has no shortage of weird, bizarre, and unusual geography. Like France, the United States has territories scattered throughout the world. Even without the territories, Alaska and Hawaii give you plenty of fodder for weird geography. From the hustle and […]
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You’ve probably heard a lot about the severe drought in California on the news over the past few years. And if you’re like most people who don’t live there, you probably just shrugged it off. It wasn’t a direct threat to your daily life. The seriousness of the drought didn’t […]
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Traveling abroad is one of the richest and most rewarding experiences in life. It opens your mind, exposes you to new culture, teaches you about yourself, expands your perspective, and much more. But how exactly do we maximize the reward of international travel? The answer lies closer than you think. […]
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Starting in the 1830’s, Nebraska became the first major challenge to wagon trains heading west along the Oregon Trail. Featuring steep ascents and descents, river crossings, and extreme weather, it tested emigrants with a little bit of everything. Today, many of the Oregon Trail’s original landmarks remain not just in […]
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I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say when you think of visiting sugary white sand beaches and turquoise waters in December, the shores of Lake Michigan are probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But that’s exactly where I found myself, exploring Indiana Dunes National […]
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Well, I managed to time my last COVID update so that it was published the day South Africa announced it had discovered the heavily mutated omicron variant. Does omicron change anything from that update? A little bit, sure. However, those end-of-the-world omicron outlooks you see online and in the media […]
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There can be a fine line between weather and landscape photography and videos. And it’s a line that I’ve both toed and crossed many times. When I first started storm chasing, the goal was simple: capture some of Mother Nature’s most powerful, yet beautiful creations. Interestingly, when I shifted from […]
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As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on towards its two-year anniversary, we’re all wondering when it will finally end. As vaccines fully rolled out to the general public last spring, the United States managed to get new case loads below 10,000 per day. But then the Delta Variant came along. Just […]
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Post-COVID travel. It’s a phrase we’ve all been waiting 20 months to finally say. As we cautiously emerge from under its shadow, the pandemic has done funny things to warp our sense of time. On one hand, my final pre-COVID adventure across Mexico, the US, and Canada feels like it […]
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Rue Canusa, or Canusa Street as it’s known in English, is both a modern oddity and an homage to simpler, more unified times along the US-Canada border. Named for the two countries it separates, it’s one of the only places in the world where you can drive down the street […]
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Back in August, we made our official forecast for when the current Delta wave of COVID-19 will peak in the United States. Since we are now past the window in which we forecast the peak to occur, a lot of you are wondering if the current delta wave has actually […]
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Well, that didn’t last long. Our COVID-free summer lasted all of about six weeks. Thanks to the highly contagious Delta variant that first surfaced in India last winter, COVID-19 has come roaring back in the United States. In less than a month, the Delta spike has already surpassed all of […]
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