What I’m doing now:
I’m living in the western suburbs of Chicago and working for the man as a commercial credit analyst. I’m keeping busy, spending my free time on the following things, roughly in order of time spent:
- Being a husband and father
- Trying to master 5.11’s at the local climbing gym, and creeping into the 5.12’s
- Strength Training / Weight Lifting
- Reading and listening to podcasts about nutrition and physiology
- Reading and listening to podcasts about economics, politics, and history
- Reading about investing and personal finance
- Reading Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
, and re-reading the Missing on Superstition Mountain
series with my son
- Becoming better at identifying trees and edible plants, and doing some light foraging
- Researching backpacking destinations, gear, and safety
- Pestering everyone I know to get geared up and come backpacking with me
- Hiking & camping or some combination of the two
- Getting caught in a Google Maps/Wikipedia vortex
- Obsessing over pictures from all of my 2018 hikes
- Getting ready for a six-day trip to the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming in the summer of ’19.
- Daydreaming about a trip to Isle Royale or The Porkies in Autumn of ’19
- Kicking around the idea of staring a podcast (even though I’d be super late to that bandwagon)
, and re-reading the 
series with my sonPodcasts I’m Following
- The Tom Woods Show
- The Tim Ferriss Show
- Reply All
- Skeptoid
- Contra Krugman
- Song Exploder
- The Bob Murphy Show
Blogs I follow
I’m also planning trips in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, and Iowa, and entertaining a few wish list destinations in upper and lower Michigan. Let me know if there’s any place that I should explore and write about, or if you want to tag along on one of my adventures.
Email me about anything, and if interested you can check out this page periodically as I’ll update it from time to time as my interests & activities change.