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2015 Downtown Houston Garage Fire

Smoke, Sirens, and Shock: Witnessing the Downtown Houston Garage Inferno It started like any other weekday morning in Downtown Houston. I was grabbing coffee from a food truck near Travis Street, mentally preparing for a day of emails and existential dread, when I noticed something...

4th of July Weekend – Clear Lake with James & Stacy

Red, White, and Booze: July 4th on Clear Lake with the Walkers and Parsons If you ever find yourself wondering what happens when the Walkers and the Parsons collide on a holiday weekend, let me save you the suspense: it’s loud, it’s legendary, and it usually involves someone losing a flip...

2014 Austin Texas with Tara & Wendy

Tequila, Tunes, and 6th Street Shenanigans: Our Cinco de Mayo in Austin If you’ve never experienced Austin, Texas during Cinco de Mayo, let me paint you a picture: imagine a mariachi band battling a DJ for dominance, tacos flying off food trucks like confetti, and the scent of lime...

Chasing Sunsets and Saltwater Dreams: Our Santorini Adventure

The Arrival and First Breath of Santorini The first thing you notice about Santorini isn’t the postcard-perfect whitewashed houses or the blue-domed churches—though they’re every bit as stunning as Instagram promised. It’s the light. There’s something about the way the Aegean sun kisses...

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Here’s the fully integrated and polished blog post with your hilarious flight story woven in seamlessly: Snow, Supercomputers, and Steve Wozniak: My Wild Week in Salt Lake City Picture this: It’s October, I’m leaving sunny Southern California in a T-shirt, thinking, Salt Lake City? Sure...

Rabat, Marokko

Rabat, Morocco: Where Serenity Meets Sovereignty Rabat is Morocco’s capital, but don’t expect the frenetic pace of Casablanca or the sensory overload of Marrakech. Instead, Rabat offers a calm, cultured, and surprisingly modern experience—where wide boulevards meet ancient medinas, and...

Kasbah, Tiffoultoute

Kasbah Tiffoultoute: Morocco’s Desert Fortress of Film and Memory Nestled just a few kilometers west of Ouarzazate, the gateway to Morocco’s Sahara, stands the majestic Kasbah Tiffoultoute—a fortress of red earth and ancient echoes. With its crenellated towers, labyrinthine passageways...

2009 Big Ten Pub Crawl

I arrive at East Village Tavern and Bowl at noon and the San Diego light looks the same as it did in my memory — bright, forgiving, the kind of sun that makes everything feel possible. Except today it’s now: people are streaming in with backpacks, sunglasses, and the kind of easy...