This blog is my final journal entry before I leave the United States. I dedicate this entry to my friends and family whom I bid farewell to for the time being. This past month and a half spent in the Southeast has been filled with much excitement. I have enjoyed Christmas with my family, New Years with my friends, snowboarding in North Carolina, two bachelor parties, Mark and Gina's Wedding Shower, Mark and Chad’s Birthdays, Tucker’s wedding, the birth of my brother Derek’s daughter Jessica, and the birth of Chad and Cayce’s little girl- Chloe. Oh Yeah, Ash and Sean [View Full Entry]

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Well, I made it back to my hometown of Knoxville, TN and boy what a trip. It all started with a last night out in Vail with most of my friends. I got to say goodbye to Renee, Stacey, and most of the guys, but some of them were on duty and couldn’t make it. My dear friends Darren and Missy just adopted a little girl Kayin and had their hands full...otherwise they would've been at my side. After waking up in a blur the following day, Eric and I slowly made our way through the mountains from Vail to Denver [View Full Entry]

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I would like to start off my blog debut with a brief summary of where I've been and what lies ahead. I have spent the last year living in Vail, Colorado where I worked for the Vail Fire Department in their fire resident program. I will be leaving Vail in mid-December to head back to my home town of Knoxville, Tennessee. On the way home I will stop off to visit family in Memphis and friends in Nashville (where I lived the three years prior to Vail). I will spend a month and a half in Knoxville visiting with my friends [View Full Entry]

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The following is a journal of pictures that I have compiled from previous trips taken before the days of travelblog and before I was so internet savvy. I have documented most of these past adventures in my personal journal, but I really want to add these memories to my travelblog. They were the first of my big adventures and some of the most memorable times in my life. After graduating from college in 1999, the guys and I starting taking trips that were a little different from our normal beach parties up and down the coast. Instead of looking for where [View Full Entry]

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