And so the adventure continues to begin: Onwards and up, up, upwards! Another thing I missed on my 2023 road trip was seeing any redwoods! Most large groves of coastal redwoods in California are located north of San Francisco, and I made the decision to turn inland after spending several days in the city. The…

Dear friends and family, My adventures continued! While I was staying in Oakland for the work training, I had the evenings free to take the BART around the Bay area and explore. I spent most of it in San Francisco: It’s fair to say that I am smitten with the City That Speaks for Itself…

Dear Friends and Family, We are sooooo fricking back babes!!!!!!! It has been a long, long time since I updated this blog! Like, over a year! When I got back from the road trip in 2023 and finished the blog at the beginning of 2024, I thought I would at least write an epilogue series…

Dear Friends and Family, Thank you for returning to my blog! The adventure of my lifetime is over, but its story will continue 🙂 When my road trip was concluding at the beginning of September, I began to think about how I wanted to conclude the blog as well. I have regaled basically everyone I…

Dear Friends and Family, This is it. This is the end of the trip. This is the end. I have tried to write and re-write this blog post many times tonight, trying to capture the feelings I had that day. By now, I have had more time at home in Virginia than I had on…

Dear Friends and Family, We’re packing up the car, for one more adventure, one last time :’) It’s the night before Labor Day weekend in this photo. It is the time of precipice. Days are shortening, and the way in which they shorten is shortening. The sun is diving below the horizon these nights, it…

Dear Friends and Family, So the next couple days in the road trip don’t have much of a narrative, and I am mighty tired this week, and saving up my writing energy for the last couple of posts about the road trip. The trip was well and nearing its end by this point; it was…

Dear Friends and Family, Have you wondered why this website is actually called Skillagalee.com? Well, wonder no longer, as I finally reveal this great mystery to you! I left the Porkies to a cacophony of wild turkeys and made east again for the bridge. I was in familiar territory again as I drove down US-2,…

Dear Friends and Family, The journey continues! Thanks again for camping with me buddy, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did 🙂 Andrew and I split up after a couple days, as he had to return downstate while I continued meandering west across the Upper Peninsula. Ore docks in Marquette, from which…

Dear Friends and Family, Oh! Wait some of you are here! Welcome, my audience 🙂 I left western Minnesota around the 8th or 9th of August, and beat feet pretty quickly back to Michigan. Way back when this road trip started, I had planned to continue westward into the UP, but I was very tired…