Preface: Living close to most of our family and friends, almost all of the weddings Sarah and I have attended were within a short driving distance of our house. As a result, any out of town wedding that we've gotten invited to has been met with a great deal excitement and anticipation. Thus, when we learned that one of my cousins would be getting married in Carlsbad, CA we immediately began making plans to attend. Never ones to shy away from an opportunity to explore a new part of the world, Sarah and I decided to make an adventure of the trip and knock a few things off the Life List while...

It had been nearly three years since Sarah and I first summited Guadalupe Peak and my desire to climb the next mountain on my list was beginning to consume me. The second mountain on my "Seven Summits" list is Mt Elbert, the tallest mountain in Colorado. I hadn’t had an opportunity to go to Colorado yet but that eventually changed when one of my cousins from Colorado Springs invited Sarah and I to her wedding. I made sure to plan our trip so that it would include an opportunity to go mountain climbing and soon enough we were taking off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport en route to Denver....

After another amazing year had drawn to a close, I pondered the ways that I could start 2014 on high note. My wife was officially at the half-way point in her law school career and we both felt that we needed to get away from the city for a while to decompress and relax. Given our desire to avoid anything crowded and our need for serenity, there was only one place to go; Big Bend National Park! Neither of us had been to Big Bend before so we didn't know exactly what to expect but everything and everyone described it as one of the most remote and peaceful environments in the world. A massive...

Early on in the planning stages of our nuptials, Sarah and I agreed that she would be primarily in charge of the wedding day and that I would have complete creative control over the honeymoon. I certaintly had no quarrels with this arrangement and quickly found myself scouring the web, seeking out the perfect destination for our newlywed retreat. The options seemed limitless and ranged from private huts over the tropical waters of Bora Bora to romantic evenings in the streets of Paris, but everything seemed to be pointing to one place: Hawaii! Having never been to Hawaii before,...

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Recently I had talked with Sarah about having our wedding ceremony at one of the historic missions on the southside of San Antonio and though Sarah had grown up in the area her whole life, she could not recall having ever visited them. She had of course been to the Alamo, but the missions I was speaking of were the four lesser known missions along the San Antonio River on the south side of the city. Although a few of them are arguably more preserved and more beautiful than the Alamo, many visitors and even residents never venture out to see them or even worse, don't know they exist. Given...

Sarah and I enjoyed a quick day trip to Krause Springs today! I had never been before but it was a beautiful area and it was a lot of fun to get out of San Antonio for the day. We hiked for a bit, enjoyed a picnic lunch, and played a few games of chess as we watched the sun set. We had a great time and I was able to get a few great shots of the waterfalls within the park.

While having dinner with Sarah's parents one November evening, the topic of New Orleans found its way into our conversation and it was quickly revealed that I had never been before. Upon learning this, Sarah's parents immediately started talking about all of the great restaurants that one simply must visit when they go, leading them to reminisce on the time that they themselves had spent in the city. Before I knew it, the decision was made that it had been too long since their last visit and that Sarah and I should join them for a return trip sometime soon. After glancing over a calender...

When I originally heard that Formula 1 was coming back to the United States I got excited that someday I might be able to go to one of the races. When I learned that they would be building a state of the art track and hosting the race in Austin, Texas my excitement grew exponentially with the prospect of attending a race much sooner than I ever expected. Sure enough almost a year and a half later I was holding tickets for my fiancee and I to attend the Inaugural US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas race track. Given that neither of us had ever been to a Formula 1 race, neither of us knew...

Sarah and I officially started dating on November 2nd, 2011 and to celebrate our first year together we decided to return to the site of one of our favorite adventures. The plan was to drive up to Carlsbad, NM on Friday the 2nd and then get up early to climb Guadalupe Peak on Saturday the 3rd. Unbeknownst to Sarah, I had also made a few other plans for the trip as well. When we originally climbed Guadalupe Peak last winter we had no idea what to expect or how difficult the endeavor actually was, still through snow and fog we fought our way to the top of the mountain and for a moment we stood higher...