Erron Dykins and Alexya See tied the knot on Saturday at the Grove. It was such an awesome celebration with good food, great music and amazing company! Cheers! My favorite Groomsman The Beautiful Bride Mr. and Mrs. Dykins Hip, point and nod First dance Tyler, Dave, Ian and Skid No cake smashing here The Quils [...]

This being the second year of having a garden at our house we had only one goal…for it to be better than last year’s. This isn’t a very ambitious goal since last year we managed to kill a bunch of squash plants that my dad gave us (his produced abnormal prize winning sized squash) and [...]

I ran in my second Reno/Tahoe Odyssey this weekend. The Odyssey is a 178 mile relay race (reno – mogul – verdi – boca – truckee – squaw – alpine, – tahoe city – homewood – tahoma – meeks – emerald bay – south lake – genoa – carson – silver city – gold hill [...]

After our hike, we stayed in Aguas Calientes for the night. The city resides below Machu Picchu and is surrounded by giant mountain tops. The river runs through the town, and as soon as we got off the bus from Machu Picchu, we looked for a restaurant and a beer. We met up with the [...]

3:30am. We woke up and then quickly ate cake and hot chocolate. (Meanwhile the porters were packing up getting ready for their next trek.) We then quickly ran to the gate and waited for the gates to open up. Finally around 5am, we were let into the Machu Picchu. We hiked for 30 minutes. At [...]

We were able to sleep in a little bit. At 6:30, we woke up and got ready for Happy Day! The night was the coldest so far, so we were a little slower to crawl out of our tents. Today’s hike was rolling hills, and surprisingly our group wasn’t too sore from yesterday’s travels. We [...]

5am. Up and at ‘em. The porters come by to wake you up with some coca tea ready to go. We got dressed and then enjoyed some delicious porridge and pancakes. And so it began. We walked step-by-step through the cloud forest and up to the higher elevations. I really enjoyed walking through the cloud [...]

Our journey begins with a knock at the door. “You guys up?” The answer was “no,” but really what came out was, “SHIT!” The alarm didn’t go off at 3:30am as planned. Jason, Bridget, and I quickly grabbed our things and ran to the square for the bus to pick us up. We were met [...]

Today’s adventure took us through the ruins that were located closer to the city. We started the morning with a quick breakfast of a hard boiled egg, toast, and some cocoa tea, and then left to meet our guide. We first stopped by the Saint Domingo church. This wasn’t covered by our ticket, so Bridget [...]

Today’s adventure included a tour of Incan ruins on the outskirts of Cusco. We got picked up at 7:30am and began our trip. We traveled upwards to see the entire view of Cusco. At one point the city was laid out to look similar to a Puma. The city itself has quite a far reach, [...]