In a hotel room in Colorado Springs, visiting my grandparents who were passing through. Thunder rumbles the building, vibrating glass in the door. Hail, rain, and snow sweep in sheets…
Basic tenet of life on the trail: “hike your own hike.” After a few thousand miles I have also learned, intentions shape the experience. Keeping to a trail requires maps…
So long as we dream, there will be new frontiers. Maps are drawn and re-drawn. Mountains move. I am going to walk the length of the Americas. Like so many…
Birthday Brigade congregated at the Yeoman Park Trailhead on a Friday with only moderate kerfuffleage. By mid-morning the parking lot (complete with a forest service pit toilet) was packed with…
A few years ago my landlord, Doug – of the most delicious bbq in town – had this ageing dog named Lul[a]. Auburn hide, taught over lipoma masses, grey around…
“Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that’s loved by you.” – You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Following the Tamang Heritage trail in north central Nepal, I daily encountered…
In Nepali culture, co-workers and friends can go years without learning one another’s names. Not because of estrangement, rather, quite the opposite. Everyone refers to one another in the familiar Aama/Buwa…
Promised myself I would be prompt in creating the story of this time in Nepal. Designated a few days on the tail end of the trail to unfurl thoughts and…
While the Emirates have 500 miles of coastline, only about 50 miles face east, toward the Gulf of Oman. After lunch and exploring Masafi for a bit, we arrived on…
