For this day, the plan was to stay out of the ocean and venture over to the Other Side of the island to check out the town of Volcano and Volcano National Park. It’s the national park where an active volcano is going off and lava is flowing into the Read more…
Another great day at the big island! I didn’t take many photos today, but did put together some videos. This ended up being a pretty late night, so the blog post is coming late, sorry folks! So the day started borderline stormy. The sun was blocked for most of the Read more…
Today was the first full day on the Big Island, and man was it a good one. We went to this national park recommended by Loomis. I think this was where native royalty lived, but Bae can correct me if I’m wrong. There were a lot of reconstructed huts along Read more…
Sup kids, so the work part of this trip is now over. The NSF symposium was FANTASTIC. I presented some work I’ve done with the high-altitude balloon launch, and learned a lot from my fellow…fellows. Even though I was not attending the AAS (not gonna put the acronym, just look Read more…
This is the first real day of Baecae before a few days of work, then more Baecae. I woke up this morning at like 0530 because I went to bed so early. That was good because it gave me some time to explore our options for the day. The initial Read more…
Alright kids, so thanks to the Astronomy Gods, we are getting a nice small Baecae to this archipelago you may have heard about…Hawaii. We stacked some days before and after the AAS conference to enjoy the weather since Salt Lake City is COLD (sorry Joy!). Joy is taking care of Read more…
The Grand Canyon, February 2019 Unfortunately, Bae could not attend this baecation thanks to Ole Donny and the Wall-less Shutdown. Her presence was sorely missed, but I was still able to have a good time with some excellent people! The plan for this trip was to hike down to Phantom Read more…
Well folks, we are stuck in Chicago. I’ll detail how we got to this point, but first, some things we did before hell broke loose. I started the day by walking up the street from our Airbnb to get some last minute grocieries. On the way, someone pulled over to Read more…
Well folks, our baecation is coming to a close. Today was a long day of travel. We bought round trip tickets from Munich, so since we woke up in France, we had some traveling to do. Today we took a train from Marignier to Geneva, then flew from Geneva to Read more…
UPDATE: Here is the video you can watch with all of the tour riders: Today was the end of our pilgrimage. We began in Las Cruces, and journeyed here to see the Tour. Pilgrimage complete. The final step of the pilgrimage was not easy. It featured a steep as Read more…