It feels like an odd time to write this blog as I’m not traveling right now. I dream of it, read of it, make lists of places to visit and sites to see, and now write of it, but I’m broke. It’s been this way for 10 years – my salary goes up, but the cost of living also increases and boom – I’ve gone nowhere.

I am fortunate to live in a place where people vacation, hence the cost of living issues, so I can take “trips” in what is essentially my backyard. Early on, this will be a lot of my content. Also, I was lucky to get to travel a bit with my family when I was growing up, so some of my pieces will be retrospectives. I’ve always been a photographer, so I have lots of photo evidence of those times.

A lot of what I read and part of what I’m trying to write is science fiction and fantasy. I also game and take a weird sort of inspiration from those worlds, especially when trail running and backpacking. Colorado looks a lot like Skyrim and parts of Norrath, minus the overabundance of curiously aggressive wildlife. It’s probably good we don’t have owlbears here and it’s definitely good we don’t have orcs.

However, jokes aside, it’s easy to imagine that I’m running through Hyrule, Rohan, or Skyrim when I’m out on a trail run and that’s probably the thing that inspires me the most. There’s a good chance that my propensity for escapist fantasy is a big part of my lack success in real life, so I’ll be taking those frustrations out in this blog by writing about adventure, travel, and fitness from the perspective of a introverted, over-read, underachieving, sort of scientist, who is a part time ski instructor and former roller derby athlete that is attempting to be a film maker. Not sure how valuable that background is, but it might be at least a little unique.

Some ideas:

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Gaming inspired travel

Trail Running inspiration (and running in general)

Reality vs. Escapism and finding a healthy balance between the two.

Avoiding a life of quiet desperation

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Gaming inspired workout ideas (non running)

I’ll come up with more and I also welcome any suggestions. I’m going to start out with monthly posts and see how that goes.

Welcome to my wannabe travel blog written by a depressingly infrequent traveler with a weird background and a terrible commute.