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I’m a Texas native who left the Lone Star State for the mountains of Utah. My wife and I will be taking a hiatus from medicine in a few short months for a year of pure travel. We’ve traveled to nearly 50 countries and can’t wait to see even more of this incredible planet.

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travel ↟ hike ↟ adventure ↟ zero waste
wife to @whit_hase 👭

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Our orchard is full of spring buds! We have apple,

Our orchard is full of spring buds! We have apple, pear, plum, and cherry trees blooming and some baby raspberry leaves poking through the ground. It’s a nice reminder that through all of this chaos and uncertainty, the world still goes on.

My sweet darlings, however did you stay afloat for

My sweet darlings,
however did you stay afloat for so long
and never suspect you were
built to breathe underwater?

Why did you never toss thoughts
around in three dimensions,
never loose them like dragonflies
into the deep sky?

How could you fear falling?
Didn’t you see the spiders
stringing safety nets
across the earth every day, just in case?

Instead, you tore at this world, and I watched.
I felt the air’s grim thickening, saw the waters rise.
You were huddled at the precipice—at the very brink,
my loves—and still bellowing for more.

What crucial inspiration turned you at the last?
I’ll never know what broke over you,
and with what calamity, clamor
or grace—

but when you knelt, as one, it was a mighty sight.
You placed your hunger on the ground
and left it to lie among the gadgetry of old logics,
beside the corpses of cruelty and greed.

You were exquisite to me then, long-legged and bright-eyed,
built of gravel and stardust; oh,
my sweet, funny loves. My unfurling galaxy, my
pebble-scatter of promises.

And so we came to the age of the great unbuilding,
where everyone’s name is stillness.
Here, day gathers you into the deep magic of play.
Here, night powders you with the ancient magic of rest.

It’s a time of dragonflies.

So be soft in your hearts, dear hearts,
for we are all cast shining and short-lived into the sky—
And allow your face to take the shape of wonder
when your children ask again to hear the tale

of the time you almost broke the world. -Rowan Mangan

A few shots from our life at the cabin. It is such

A few shots from our life at the cabin. It is such a breath of fresh air, but we are also feeling like we are in free fall. We managed to run to the river (you know, all that ‘get outside, move your body’ stuff people are touting) and then I proceeded to stuff my face with apple pie, rather than eat lunch. You win some, you lose some.

Another Montana sunset at the cabin. Lesson of the

Another Montana sunset at the cabin. Lesson of the day: puzzles are hard. #quarantinelife

The place where our travel plans came crashing dow

The place where our travel plans came crashing down on us. I am grateful that this travel hiccup is one of the few debacles we’ve dealt with in the last 8+ years of traveling. And I’m trying my best to just surrender to what life has in store for me over the next few months. Those of us who have control issues and plan out their lives in excess, struggle with letting go and allowing life to take the wheel. But maybe if we just sit still and listen closely, the world will share its secrets in these moments of solitude. #quarantinethoughts

Another smattering of photos from our time in Sri

Another smattering of photos from our time in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Currently waiting in the airport for our flight home. Cancelled trips totally suck but we are ready for some self isolation time at home.

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