James “JT” Thomson is a retired Coast Guardsman, 911 tele-communicator, lifelong wanderer, and firm believer that the best stories start with a questionable idea. When he’s not under a headset, answering 911 calls, he’s usually chasing sunsets, backroads, and the kind of trails that make your inner voice say, “This might be a mistake…”
JT writes with equal parts humor, honesty, and pucker-factor philosophy — blending off-road adventures, travel tales, general stories about life, and the kind of warped personal philosophy that only comes from decades of dumb ideas, hard-earned lessons, and watching people do the unexpected at 3 a.m. on a 911 line. His military years gave him grit, his time in emergency communications sharpened his calm-in-the-chaos instincts, and his curiosity gets him into trouble just often enough to keep things interesting. His wife keeps him alive long enough to turn it all into a story.
He’s the creator of Dumb Ideas, Good Stories, a blog dedicated to exploring the unpaved parts of the world — and the unpaved parts of ourselves.
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