2024 Year End Lists

December 12 2024

Favorite new spot 

Fernie, BC Canada

Top 5 photos from the year

Fernie, BC watching the Wam Bam Jump Jam Competition

Nags Head, NC - Soundside Sunset

The Sioux Quartzite rock cliffs at Palisades State Park in SD. Find the Great Blue Heron...

Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park

Home in the the Rockfish Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

Places traveled in 2024

January - Florida

February - Panama

March - Bozeman MT and Outer Banks NC

April - Outer Banks NC

May/June/July - Epic 10,000 mile National Parks Adventure in North America

August - Pennsylvania

September - Northampton MA, Outer Banks NC and London

October - Bath UK, North Pembrokeshire Wales, Porto Portugal

November - Asheville NC

December - Outer Banks NC

States Visited

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Florida

West Virginia

Kentucky

Illinois

Missouri

Kansas

Colorado

Utah

Nevada

Idaho

Washington

British Columbia

Montana

Wyoming

South Dakota

Minnesota

Indiana

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

Virginia

National and State Parks / Monuments visited

Congaree National Park  SC

Beech Fork State Park WV

Harmonie State Park IN

Cahokia Mounds Historic Site IL

Wilson State Park KS

Rocky Mountain National Park CO

Dead Horse Point State Park UT

Arches National Park UT

Canyonlands National Park UT

Capital Reef National Park UT

Escalante Petrified Forest State Park UT

Bryce Canyon National Park UT

Great Basin National Park NV

Wasatch Mountain State Park UT

Craters of the Moon National Monument ID

Glacier National Park MT

Mount Fernie Provincial Park BC CA

Wapanum State Park WA

Makoshika State Park MT

Badlands National Park SD

Palisades State Park SD

Pipestone National Monument SD

CKST Bison Range MT

Great River Bluff State Park MN

Indiana Sand Dunes National Park IN

Hocking Hills State Park OH

Douthat State Park VA

2024 Reading List for Randy

• Stolen Focus – Johann Hari

• Fidel Castro- the playboy interview 1985

• Outlive - Peter Attia

• Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

• Tibetan Peach Pie - Tom Robbins

• 12 rules for life- Jordan Peterson

• The Heart Of Everything That Is- The Untold Story of Red Cloud – Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

• Strength to Strength - Arthur C Brooks

• 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think – Brianna Wiest

• Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

• Where the Deer and the Antelope Play  - Nick Offerman

• The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey

• Once There Were Wolves – Charlotte McConaghy

• The Measure – Nikki Erlick

• The Storyteller - Dave Grohl

• A New Earth- Awakening Your Life’s Purpose- Eckhart Tolle

• Under the Banner of Heaven - John Krakauer

• The Quick Red Fox - John D Macdonald

• Dead Low Tide - John D Macdonald

• Wonka – Sibéal Pounder

• The First Rule of Punk – Celia C Pérez

• James -  Percival Everitt

• Erasure -  Percival Everitt

• The Trees -  Percival Everitt

• My Effin’ Life – Geddy Lee

• Half asleep in Frog Pajamas – Tom Robbins

• My Art, My Life - Diego Rivera

• Brothers- Alex Van Halen

• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues- Tom Robbins

• Scar tissue - Anthony Kiedis

• Acid For the Children - Flea

• Wherever You Go, There You Are - Jon Kabat Zinn

•  Light on Life  - BKS Iyengar

• Open - Andre Agassi

• The Marvels – Brian Selznick