R Scott Jones

I ❤︎ quests, public lands, travel adventures, & #OptOutside ✹ Mediocre Host of OnePhoto.Club + #OnePostcard + #GoQuesting ✹ Visited all 433 National Parks + 494/495 #TreasuredPlaces ✹ Fan of the social web and the personal web ✹ PHX AZ ✹ More at rscottjones.com, rscottjon.es, and rsjon.es

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Our recent 100-day trip around the world: https://AdventuresAroundThe.World

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2025-09-25 21:16:04 UTC

Doing some more road trip planning. The black circles are some potential areas I might be driving through soon. Any attractions or stops you think I’d enjoy making in any of them?
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2025-09-18 21:58:42 UTC

🌉 Off to San Francisco for the weekend!

2025-09-18 15:19:54 UTC

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Some gorgeous photos and terrain, Tim! Glad you’re enjoying it.

2025-09-09 00:46:27 UTC

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That can lead to its own fun! 😆

2025-09-09 00:37:12 UTC

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A wedding at 10k feet sounds like a whole lotta fun!

2025-09-08 05:34:01 UTC

🌵 Just landed back in Phoenix after a successful road trip around Ohio.

2025-09-03 00:48:31 UTC

I’m just a tourist with a camera, but photography makes me focus more intently at the landscape, esp smaller details I would otherwise miss. I spend more time thinking about angles, viewpoints, lighting, clouds. But most of all, seeing photos I’ve previously taken adds a little bit more value to the total value I got from the original experience—a memory dividend that continues to compound each time I see it (sometimes even surpassing the initial value I got on the trip) https://social.ewenbell.com/objects/4c4c6d7b-9b67-4c56-b49a-c299bd376556

2025-08-29 23:15:27 UTC

🛫 Heading out on another fly-in roadtrip (https://rsjon.es/2025/08/27/next-trip-ohio-western-pa/) early tomorrow. Expect a bunch of trip posts for the next nine days.

2025-08-29 15:40:45 UTC

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These kinds of cascades are always lots of fun to explore in person, but are impossible capture in one complete photo. Glad you got to enjoy it for awhile

2025-08-27 17:56:05 UTC

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It almost looks like a concrete water feature at the bottom there. Bet it was a nice spot to enjoy for a few moments

2025-08-26 00:16:57 UTC

Quintessential rural Nebraska
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2025-08-25 00:51:50 UTC

On trail(s).
🏷️25.08A
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2025-08-14 20:19:17 UTC

Yesterday I logged in to the Parks Canada reservation site using my “GCKey” to cancel some camping reservations and even though I used my correct saved username/password, I was apparently flagged anyway(?), which apparently immediately revoked my credentials.
I must now create an entirely new profile, including username and email address. How annoying
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2025-08-07 16:17:58 UTC

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Haha, right? I’m skeptical of the whole island thing to begin with (we’re talking Nebraska here), but I am sure that it’s not a grand one. 😆
I saw a few explanations, but the one that seems the most likely was that there was a long narrow island formed by some braiding in the Platte River, and French fur traders called it La Grande Isle. The town was supposed to be established on it (a rather dumb idea), but instead ended up on the north bank nearby.

2025-08-07 13:30:22 UTC

We booked a ridiculous trip last night: https://rsjon.es/2025/08/07/we-booked-a-ridiculous-trip/

2025-08-06 00:46:19 UTC

Just updated the Treasured Places quest list, which now includes 495 of America’s best protected public lands: every national park unit, national monument, and national conservation area in the country. https://www.treasuredplaces.us

2025-07-26 15:38:48 UTC

🐶 My mom is losing her dog Shelby today, who has been her closest companion for the last decade. I'm heading up there to be with her on what's going to be a very tough day.

2025-07-24 20:23:09 UTC

Spent 40 mins filling out paperwork last night for this PT visit, only to have to fill out half of it again once I arrived. So frustrating. I don’t understand why this is almost always a thing.

2025-07-23 15:20:49 UTC

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Welcome home! Seems like it was a great trip

2025-07-20 22:47:36 UTC

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Thx! And this adds to your existing account, but does not overwrite the existing follows list in some way?

2025-07-20 21:07:11 UTC

Is it possible to merge two mastodon accounts, thereby combining the follows into one account? #mastodon

2025-07-18 19:05:43 UTC

Back from the doctor, and hopefully these new muscle relaxer/pain med/anti-flammatories do the trick for my still-very-angry back. Added PT next week, too. 🤞

2025-07-18 03:16:48 UTC

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Seems like a smart move

2025-07-18 00:16:52 UTC

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Haha, wow!!
Have you been to many of the Manhattan Project-related sites? We’ve had our own little quest to visit all the publicly-open ones. It’s been a fun endeavor.

2025-07-17 19:43:08 UTC

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You probably already know this, but Trinity Site is briefly open twice a year for visitors. Definitely worth a visit if you can swing it.

2025-07-12 02:46:37 UTC

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Hope you have a blast Tim!

2025-07-06 01:39:50 UTC

⛰️ Looks like our Canadian Rockies trip is likely to happen. And it’s also likely I’ll be driving there via Phoenix 😆

2025-07-03 00:40:43 UTC

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Is there actual confirmed reporting that is what happened? Seemed like they couldn’t confirm that is what happened, so couldn’t make that claim.

2025-07-01 19:27:08 UTC

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Love the reflection!

2025-06-24 23:14:42 UTC

Here’s the final map of the trip (dark green are new counties visited, light green are repeats). Still surprised we ended up in Yellowstone and Grand Teton while getting everything else done but Golden Spike NHS. 🏷️25.06B
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2025-06-24 22:55:32 UTC

Here’s 20 seconds of zen watching the Colorado River relentlessly tumble towards the Grand Canyon.
🏷️25.06B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynuhtsi5Lbw

2025-06-21 18:14:40 UTC

🦬 We’ve basically completely abandoned our original trip plans and are now spending the day in Yellowstone and Grand Teton. 😂🤷‍♂️

2025-06-21 06:22:24 UTC

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The artist apparently had a “vision” of a tree while driving along the otherwise featureless salt flat. Which, you know, might explain a lot.

2025-06-20 02:40:05 UTC

This art installation, along I-80 along the Bonneville Salt Flat, is apparently called the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah. Uh yeah, sorta weird.
Look, I’ve been to Pando, and if there’s any “tree of Utah,” it’s gotta be that one.
🏷️25.06B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor:_The_Tree_of_Utah
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2025-06-11 18:53:56 UTC

Had an excellent time last night on our moonlight paddle down the Lower Salt River. A great way to celebrate Brittany’s birthday, finally meet up with an internet buddy, and very belatedly kick off paddling season. It’s always great to spend an evening on the river.
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2025-06-07 22:29:18 UTC

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Yeah, 40th St/Chandler. Its official name is Wren Südhalle—featuring about half Wren House beers, half European imports. Great happy hour deal, 3-5p everyday, $10 for a pint and a single smash burger (or pretzel, or fries/rings). Check it out sometime (say hi if you see me there, I’m there too often with a laptop with a topo map cover)

2025-06-07 21:36:52 UTC

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Nice, I’m down in Tukee too. Wasn’t happy to live here initially, but it’s grown on me. I think getting Wren House Brewing down here really helped with that 😂🍻

2025-06-07 21:16:08 UTC

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Surmising that you might live here in Phoenix…
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2025-06-02 00:27:57 UTC

😴 Last night of the road trip, and I’m pooped. I have a couple quick things on the agenda for tomorrow, along with a 4 hour drive back to Columbus for my flight. It’s been productive, but I’m also ready for home.

2025-05-30 13:28:38 UTC

Made a new, but short-lived, friend. He just seemed far more interested in my picnic basket than my friendship.
🏷️ ... https://rsjon.es/2025/05/30/made-a-new-but-shortlived/

2025-05-27 23:45:03 UTC

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Likewise. Ended up at Hammonasset Beach State Park, which seemed to make sense at the time. I’ll end up in the western Maryland panhandle tonight before spending the rest of my trip in West Virginia, Kentucky (?), and Indiana. Thanks again for making the time and the beer.

2025-05-27 16:13:29 UTC

Excellent day yesterday meeting up with @npub1ttg…v0xy for a walking tour thru historical Plymouth, plus a couple tasty pours at Vitamin Sea Brewing.
🏷️ 25.05C
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2025-05-26 00:23:41 UTC

☑️ After visiting the two most recent additions, I’ve again (re-)completed my quest to visit all (now 433) National Park units in the US!

2025-05-17 14:39:04 UTC

🚘 Road trip! Heading to the East for some questing and camping adventures.

2025-05-14 02:34:01 UTC

Today is the one year anniversary of my dad’s death.
It’s been a weird year since he passed away. I’ve vacillated between reflection, gratitude, sadness, and confusion. Today, I’m commemorating it with a beverage (or several) at the place we’d enjoy happy hour together in his last few years.
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2025-05-13 20:10:50 UTC

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And not only different rules for areas within the same state, but even different rules within the same national forest within the same state. That’s mostly due to conservation or recreation overlay designations that can added to forests and public lands to better protect certain resources or address the impacts of high-use areas. It can all be a bit hard to parse out without checking on specific rules for the trail you’ll be on.

2025-05-08 16:24:08 UTC

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These rankings never make sense. “Natural environment” category is heavily influenced by air and water quality (where you are talking about minor differences in measurements between the states, and averaged across the entire state in spite of the localization of many of these issues), but that category somehow doesn’t include access to parks and public lands? Okay.

2025-04-29 03:41:04 UTC

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Wow! Glad you didn't get hurt.
(also, I had to look up what a spruce trap was!)

2025-04-23 00:28:24 UTC

Our favorites from the trip: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/04/22/our-favorites-from-the-trip.html

2025-04-21 21:21:50 UTC

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Sounds like a *big* win to me!

2025-04-19 22:19:21 UTC

Craft Beer Quick Stop. 📍
Among the very best craft beer bottleshops in metro Phoenix is this crappy looking converted Circle K. Like an old used bookstore, it’s just crammed to the brim with good selections. I believe it’s the same owners as the old convenience store who just shifted businesses, but kudos—they nailed it! http://maps.apple.com/?ll=33.656503,-112.065182
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2025-04-18 22:30:18 UTC

I finally published a page listing the Geographic Extremes of the US that I’ve visited. This isn’t an actual quest, per se, but just something fun to keep track of. https://rscottjones.com/quests/geographic-extremes/

2025-04-17 01:40:48 UTC

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I’m bummed I don’t have them all already! 😂 but I should finish CA and CT by July, plus get closer on UT and NM.

2025-04-16 23:56:56 UTC

Made some progress on my county quest last weekend. Light blue are counties I revisited, darker blue are newly completed ones. My full map is at the link. https://mob-rule.com/user/rscottjones
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2025-04-10 12:59:46 UTC

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She’s a beaut!

2025-04-06 03:07:34 UTC

🦂 Welp. Found our first scorpion of the season on the doorstep tonight.

2025-03-28 17:56:55 UTC

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Sorry, that wording was unclear. One of my wife's closest family members. So definitely a downer. Also 100% necessary to get over there soon, as things are declining quicker than expected.

2025-03-28 05:17:32 UTC

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Thanks Tim. The toppling here is sadly due to failing health, so we need to visit sooner than original expected. It throws a monkeywrench into our plans, adding more cost and time time.
But we'll find a way to make all the important bits work, though I expect the "fun" part of the trip to look quite a bit differently as a result. I'll be in touch once we chart out an alternative, which we probably won't get to until late next week at the earliest.

2025-03-27 20:51:44 UTC

🧳 Welp, it took only a week after we booked our big summer road trip to have to radically change it. We need to split it into two in order to expedite one of the legs. Unfortunately, I’m not sure where that leaves the other half of the trip. /:

2025-03-17 21:53:51 UTC

Ten years ago today, my dog Sipapu died quite unexpectedly. A rez dog, my ex and I had unwittingly rescued him near Monument Valley as we returned from a long road trip. He was emaciated, hobbled, and had a broken tail. Sipapu seemed like a good name for the new life he would now have. I miss him.
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2025-03-13 01:17:21 UTC

The Sea Stacks of Australia’s Great Ocean Road: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/03/12/181525.html
A photo album of sea stacks along the Great Ocean Road in Australia.

2025-03-10 16:40:41 UTC

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Believe it or not, but one of the road trips might get me up to your neck of the woods! We'll need to grab a beverage if it comes to be.

2025-03-10 16:02:26 UTC

🗺️ Plotting out some summer road trips.

2025-02-28 11:30:18 UTC

🛌 We’ve been home for four days already, and I still haven’t managed a good night’s sleep.

2025-02-26 17:47:09 UTC

Dew drop in when you can
#the100pics
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2025-02-19 12:35:36 UTC

How do you deal with a sinkhole (or two) in the middle of your town? Well, you make them into garden parks! -S ... https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/19/how-do-you-deal-with.html
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2025-02-18 21:27:19 UTC

Approximately half of our conversations while campervanning here in Australia are about what we should do about getting/building our own campervan-like adventuremobile back in the US. 😂

2025-02-15 10:30:47 UTC

Rock pools: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/15/rock-pools.html

2025-02-11 09:20:05 UTC

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Looks gorgeous Tim!

2025-02-09 03:23:33 UTC

Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/09/snorkeling-the-great-barrier-reef.html

2025-02-06 11:25:49 UTC

Conditions were far from perfect, but we still managed some snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef today! Unfortunately, tomorrow’s snorkel isn’t looking too good; not only is the weather shitty again, but I managed to hurt my back too. Sigh…
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2025-02-05 21:54:58 UTC

🐟 Welp, the snorkeling day tour of the Great Barrier Reef is apparently a go, in spite of it being socked in and raining at the port. So hopefully the conditions out there are much better and we can still have a quality experience. 🤞

2025-02-03 03:11:40 UTC

I updated my map of airports I’ve been to. I’m now over 100!
Of course, I’ll add another half dozen later in this trip.
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2025-01-27 15:29:10 UTC

Cheers to 100!!: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/01/27/cheers-to.html

2025-01-27 13:05:12 UTC

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I mean the Singapore airport ain’t half bad either!
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2025-01-27 12:24:56 UTC

🤒 Welp, we both managed to get sick on our last day in Sri Lanka. So we pulled an audible and canceled our visit to the Maldives and headed to Singapore early. Stopped at a clinic in the airport for some meds.

2025-01-26 16:42:50 UTC

The highlight of Yala Natl Park—perhaps the top wildlife experience of our whole trip—was seeing a Sri Lankan leopard! We followed it for a long time, tracking it thru four areas of dense vegetation.
But this last portion was the best: we watched it (unsuccessfully) go after a spotted deer! -S🇱🇰
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2025-01-25 16:33:47 UTC

It took nearly 8 hours of driving today to get to and from an otherwise disappointing 3-hour safari…
But the last 20 or so minutes made it all worth it!
More photos coming tomorrow on AdventuresAroundThe.World
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2025-01-23 14:38:12 UTC

Gangaramaya Temple - Colombo, Sri ... https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/01/23/gangaramaya-temple-colombo-sri-lanka.html

2025-01-17 15:19:38 UTC

Jen has officially started a countdown for reaching her goal of visiting 100 countries and territories before she’s 50. She’s now at 98, and we fly to number 99 tomorrow.

2025-01-16 16:05:28 UTC

📷 I think this trip has really inspired Jen to get into photography a bit more seriously. She’s been really loving her new camera and clearly enjoys taking photos with it. -S 🇲🇺

2025-01-14 15:22:28 UTC

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Thanks Tim! Our hotel FINALLY has a bed that isn’t harder than concrete, so things are looking up!

2025-01-14 14:58:31 UTC

🇲🇺 Landed in Mauritius, which is our 14th country of the trip and Jen’s 98th overall (just 2 shy of her 100 before 50 quest).

2025-01-13 15:19:35 UTC

Put a bird on it.
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2025-01-11 15:18:40 UTC

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Thanks for following along! It definitely feels like we’ve been away for awhile, but we’re not ready to come home yet! (though I could sure use a good New England IPA right now)

2025-01-11 12:01:02 UTC

💆 We returned to Dar es Salaam this morning, where we said goodbye to our 24-day overlanding tour, some of whom are continuing on to Kenya and Uganda.
This is day 50 of our trip, and we’ll recoup and relax here for the next couple of days, as we shift from African safari mode to tropical island mode.

2024-12-25 16:07:58 UTC

Merry Christmas from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe! We enjoyed an afternoon looking at the falls (despite a quick afternoon downpour). -J 🇿🇼
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2024-12-22 12:36:03 UTC

Some lion photos from this morning’s safari.
-S 🇧🇼
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2024-12-21 19:25:45 UTC

We have a bit of unexpected wifi, so here are some hippo pics from the day. -S 🇧🇼
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2024-12-21 19:24:52 UTC

We did a Mokoro canoe today in the Okavango Delta. During the canoe, we came across a bloat of hippos and I was able to capture them making noise. -J ... https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2024/12/21/we-did-a.html

2024-12-19 12:37:42 UTC

And we’re off on our 24-day safari thru South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania!
Here’s our vehicle for the journey!
-S 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇿🇼🇿🇲🇲🇼🇹🇿
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2024-12-17 17:28:14 UTC

Visiting Lesotho via the Sani Pass: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2024/12/17/visiting-lesotho-via.html

2024-12-14 16:18:30 UTC

Way to make it super awkward, man…
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2024-12-14 15:05:16 UTC

Tala Game Reserve, South Africa: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2024/12/14/tala-game-reserve.html

2024-12-13 18:15:16 UTC

After yet another very long day, I completely relate to this guy’s choices.
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2024-12-13 05:14:28 UTC

One of the first experiences we had in Pilanesberg National Park was these two subadult rhinos fighting one another. -J ... https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2024/12/13/one-of-the.html

2024-12-10 18:57:43 UTC

Exploring around the UAE: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2024/12/10/exploring-around-the.html

2024-12-10 18:28:28 UTC

My first safari here in Africa did not disappoint. Many more coming up in the next several weeks…
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2024-12-09 15:35:12 UTC

🌍 Just landed on a new (to me) continent—Africa—and starting what’s always felt like the “core” of the trip.

2024-12-05 04:02:12 UTC

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Bad for the economy man.