Turning 100,000

My blog just hit an important milestone as it surpassed 100,000 pageviews! I originally launched my blog in December of 2010 as www.robbyaroundtheworld.com, before leaving on a jet plane to live in Saigon, Vietnam during my junior year of college. The blog's original purpose was for two things. First was to keep …

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Tested: 2019 Jeep Wrangler

Hidden away in rural Wisconsin's Dodge and Washington counties are some of the most pristine, preserved freshwater cattail marshes in the United States.  Mapped expanses of important protected wilderness that act as places of refuge for flocks of migratory geese, eagles, the showy hooded merganser, and other wate…

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Backpacking Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park

I was overcome with the biggest sensation of gratitude, standing once again on my feet at Colorado's dreamy Great Sand Dunes National Park.  Rewind to 2015 in the midst of a 19-hour drive back to Wisconsin, I detoured from the main highway to check out this national park, but  my first time visiting  was much too s…

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