Quick post, tired, hungry, etc. Devil's Tower was towering! Great little hike to check it out, Prarie Dog Mania! Yellowstone was beautiful and HUGE! The place is geothermal central, smoke coming out of the ground all over the place. Wildlife everywhere, a Bison was literally walking down the shoulder 2 ft from my car at one point. It was intense, all I could think is please don't gore me and my car. Elk were also all over. Apparently it's mating seaso...

The Badlands. Wow, seriously. Finally got to my first National Park, and this was a great way to kick off that part of my trip. The Badlands were absolutely amazing. I have never seen something like this in person in my entire life. The layers of geology that make up these formations are fantastic. And because of the way they were formed and continue to be altered, rapid erosion from wind and water, they will never be the same should I come back. I hit 7 hi...

Well, it's been a crazy day or so! I decided to go all in at Skydive Chicago and do the $125 all you can jump, couldn't resist. Made 9 jumps there yesterday, can't beat that price! Planes were good, people were cool, plenty of friends were made in the air and on the ground. I also got to check out team Mandarin (4-way VRW) as they were training all day, looked pretty damn good! This place is like a resort and the title picture is one I took around sunset at ...

Alright, so I finally made it to Chicago today... I was supposed to leave Buffalo on Monday, but felt some chest pain during the Bills game, GO BILLS!, and went to the ER to get it checked out. Long story short, 2.5 days later, 1 x-ray, 1 CT scan with contrast injection, 1 Echo, 1 Cardiac MRI with contrast injection, and a number of doctors and EKG's later it's been decided I have some sort of muscle/bone pain that just has to run it's course. Thank you oh s...

Got to Buffalo fine on Saturday, and got in touch with my buddy Scott MacLean and made plans to watch the OSU/USC "game" if you can call it that. Met some of Scott's friends, those guys were really cool. You all better end up skydiving since you talked some big game the other night! Then headed downtown to hit the bar district with Scott and some people, which was a blast. Tom Farley, you're a bum, Sara Calarco, same comment. You guys should have...