Catching Up provides the reader with an amazing number and variety of the author's personal adventures in the outdoors. These include such experiences as encountering mountain lions in the wild, being treed by a moose in the Grand Tetons, encountering a fierce javelina boar in Big Bend, studying ferruginous pygmy-owls on the King Ranch, restoring Ridley sea turtles to Padre Island, being face-to-face with a number of wild bears, censusing birds on Mexico's Tiburon Island, and watching a peregrine falcon in Mexico's Maderas del Carmen.