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Places

Pins for cities and regions I've visited, dropped roughly at city center.

Visit log

  • Planned · Jan 3 – 17, 2027 Hawaii, USA
    Kaanapali, Maui
    Marriott's Maui Ocean Club
    Countdown · 169 days
  • Planned · Oct 17, 2026 California, USA
    San Francisco, California
    Marriott Vacation Club Pulse San Francisco
    Countdown · 91 days

    Vacation Club package deal — must be redeemed by 17 October 2026.

  • Want to visit Oregon, USA
    Bend, Oregon

    Curtain Closer — Monkless Beer, I can't wait to have you again.

  • Want to visit California, USA
    Convict Lake

    I miss the beauty of your majestic mountains.

  • Want to visit Hawaii, USA
    Kauai, Hawaii

    One of the Islands I have not visited yet.

  • Jan 16 – Feb 1, 2026 Hawaii, USA
    Ko Olina, Oahu
    Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club

    Sunset that ended up as the avatar photo.

    Three of us standing on a Ko Olina beach with "2026" written in the sand at our feetLanikai Beach with the Mokulua Islands offshoreLeeward Oahu coast — rocky tide pools in the foreground, the mountain rising on the rightFramed Nick Kuchar travel poster reading "Fall in love with Ko Olina, O'ahu Hawai'i"The catamaran Hololea moored at the Ko Olina marinaA large monkeypod tree at night, uplit, branches spreading wide above the resort grounds
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  • Nov 16 – 20, 2025 Alabama, USA
    Huntsville, Alabama
  • Aug 6 – 10, 2025 Alabama, USA
    Madison, Alabama
  • Jun 4 – 7, 2025 Oregon, USA
    Ashland, Oregon
    A snowmelt creek tumbling over a small cascade through pine forestA forest creek splitting around a logjam, tall pines on both banksHigh-desert chaparral and pines under wispy cirrus clouds, a distant snow-capped peak on the horizon
  • May 31 – Jun 4, 2025 Oregon, USA
    Bend, Oregon
    TownePlace Suites by Marriott Bend
    Sister Mountains rising above the high desert, snow on the peaksSeared sausage over potato gnocchi at Monkless, Curtain Closer beer behindTumalo Falls — a tall waterfall pouring off a basalt cliffLate-afternoon view down the Deschutes River with lavender in the foregroundTall ponderosa pine forest in Shevlin ParkMount Bachelor silhouette over the Deschutes River at last light
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  • May 29 – 31, 2025 California, USA
    South Lake Tahoe
    Marriott's Timber Lodge
    First lake view of the day from the trail above South Lake TahoeSnow-capped Sierras across Lake TahoeLake from a boulder outcrop, Stateline buildings beyondAfternoon panorama — Sierras on the left, lake on the rightCalifornia / Nevada state line marker in concreteBurnt trees recovering along the trail
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  • Feb 9 – 14, 2025 California, USA
    Palm Desert, California
    Marriott's Shadow Ridge II — The Villages

    First long multi-stop EV drive — and a tram ride to a peak my father had taken me to.

    Tesla parked roadside with the snow-dusted San Jacinto Mountains rising under a deck of clouds beyondMarriott Shadow Ridge villas with palms and the Santa Rosa Mountains rising behindClouds breaking over the Coachella Valley below, framed by pines from a Mt San Jacinto trailPomegranate martini at the resort restaurant with a palm-lined sunset behindBlack swan with a bright red beak gliding on the resort lagoonSun dog rainbow halo over a tile roof and palm fronds
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  • May 18 – 23, 2024 Alabama, USA
    Huntsville, Alabama
  • Jan 14 – 26, 2024 Hawaii, USA
    Ko Olina, Oahu
    Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club

    First booking on the vacation-club points — three generations on Oʻahu, my grandfather's first time on the islands.

    Panoramic view from the Nuʻuanu Pali Lookout — green ridges of the Koʻolau range sweeping into the windward valleyThe Mokulua Islands seen across glass-clear shallow Lanikai waterThe bow of USS Missouri with the painted hull number 63 at Pearl HarborHonolulu and the Mānoa Valley spread out below from Diamond Head's rim, the Koʻolau range behindEmerald-green shallows over reef at Makapuʻu, black volcanic rocks in the foregroundA deep-orange sunset framed by an arching palm frond over the Ko Olina lagoon
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  • Aug 23 – 25, 2023 Alabama, USA
    Huntsville, Alabama
    The full-scale Saturn V replica standing outside the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, an Apollo capsule mockup at its baseAn SR-71 Blackbird on outdoor display at the U.S. Space & Rocket CenterFull-scale Space Launch System model — orange core stage flanked by white solid rocket boosters — inside the Davidson CenterThe five F-1 engines clustered at the base of the horizontal Saturn V in the Davidson Center