Welcome to my personal website.
This is my primary home on the internet, a place where I can explore ideas, share some thoughts, and chronicle a few of my adventures, among other things.
You can get updates by email, or follow along via RSS (rss is great!) or syndicated on the social web. You can also follow me on social media. Or just say hi—I love getting messages.
🚧 NOTICE: I’m in the process of completely restructuring and redesigning this site, so it’s a bit of a mess right now. 🚨
👋 I share shorter posts, links, and photos at rsjon.es. This is a microblog that serves as my primary “social media” these days, and is the most frequently updated of my sites.
📝 My Public Notes is an experimental network of short notes investigating some ideas in more detail. Of particular note: Return on Adventure, journaling, memory, and strategies for aging. I’ve also started posting short product and place reviews.
🗺️ My wife and I took a 100-day trip around the world and posted frequently about it at AdventuresAroundThe.World.
About @rscottjones
I’m probably best known for my ideas on #GoQuesting and my various quests—especially visiting every national park unit, national monument, and national conservation area.
You can learn more about me, or see what I’m up to right /now. Here’s my /uses page.
Current status
Some recent posts
🚨 BTW, most of my posts these days end up at rsjon.es right now, so you might head over there too.
- Our vacation time strategies
- How We’ve Thought About Where to Live in Retirement
- October 18, 2025
- The folly of social media feeds
- My 2025 summer in 10 photos
- Getting some good out of a bad situation
- Asshole Scott
- Reducing friction through duplicative purchases
- I’m finally purging my Falcon Guides
- July 13, 2025
Some of my current projects
Not Yet Announced. 🤫 Preparing to launch another little experiment in social media community soon…
Chatty Rooms – a return to topic-based chatrooms. Stay social while ditching the toxicity of social media platforms. Launching soon!
AdventuresAroundthe.World – not really a project, per se, but our personal (non-monetized, just for fun) travel blog for our upcoming 100-day trip around the world.
BlogPrompts.fyi – a random topic generator to help you choose a topic to blog about.
OnePhoto.Club – an experiment in photo sharing on the social web that uses daily and weekly prompts as a remembering practice for your travel and outdoor adventures. On hiatus during site renovation, but relaunching this year.
#OnePostcard – a monthly postcard exchange among participants who are traveling in a specified month.
#GoQuesting – a directory of more than 1500 travel quests, including a universal hashtag system to help connect fellow questers. Currently being fully redeveloped.
Kayaking the Salt River – an informational resource for people who want to paddle the Lower Salt River near Phoenix. I also published the only guidebook for the river. This project was an experiment and served as proof-of-concept for This Place is Special.
This Place is Special – a network of place-based nonprofits that educate the public about special places that deserve better stewardship and resource protections. (building, hasn’t launched yet)
Treasured Places – an effort to expand appreciation and defense of lesser-known national park units, national monuments, and national conservation areas that are often overlooked by those visiting the 63 “named” National Parks.
Ahwatukee History – local historical wiki for the Ahwatukee Foothills village of Phoenix. (building, hasn’t launched yet)
Arizona Conservation Partners – an experiment in public lands conservation that works on one-off projects that other conservation orgs are unlikely to pursue.