My company sent me to Boulder for work and I decided to stay a few extra days because I had never been to Colorado.

The plan for Zion was simple: drive through the park from one entrance to the other and stop when the views demanded it. We stopped a lot.

Whale watching off the Massachusetts coast is one of those New England experiences that hits all the right notes: peaceful, exciting, and awe-inducing. It’s equal parts boat ride and brush with the wild. The ocean doesn’t disappoint.

I had two nights in Tromsø to see the northern lights. That is not a lot of runway. Here is what happened anyway.

If you spend enough time in New England you start to feel personally owed a moose sighting. And then one day you are driving a road you have traveled hundreds of times and something moves at the tree line.

I went to The Butterfly Place in Westford on a regular August afternoon and left feeling like I had been selected. Two butterflies landed on me. Unprompted. I am choosing to believe this means something.

I went to the Wichita Mountains expecting great landscapes. I did not expect to almost step on a rattlesnake.

I booked the Save the Bay Seal Watch Tour thinking it would be a fun afternoon. I did not expect it to end up being one of my favorite things I have done in Rhode Island.