

SilverLining in Car Trouble
Bessy is holding up like a champ!..for the most part. I have covered over 6000 miles since I got her (for $1700, mind you!) However, I...


RoadRunner - A Day in the Life
The day began on a dirt road outside of some little Canadian town, just across the border. The light of a cloudy sunrise woke me, as did...


Down the Arkansas
I have always been a land mammal, enjoying firm ground under my feet, and being more comfortable high on the side of a cliff than in a...


A Story from the Wild
I love being outside, in the wilds - complex webs of interactions, relations and dependencies, ungoverned by man. It gives me comfort to...


Kindness is Key - Fort Collins
Traveling is great. But traveling with a partner is especially awesome because you then have two pools of friends, families, and...


Trip Theme: Climb
I love the Climber community. It takes a certain type of person to put all this effort and risk into climbing up something, just to come...


Trip Themes: Stop and Go
At this point we have driven over 3000 miles, through countless ecosystems, landscapes, and social geographies. We have been met with...


Breaking into the West
After Minneapolis, Morgan and I struck out for the Badlands of South Dakota. We stopped to stay the night in what the map called "The...


Minneapolis Westward
In Minneapolis, we stayed with Nate Mitka, a friend I met in New Zealand. Some things had changed and some things had not: Nate and I...


Taste of Chi-Town
...Is it still the first week of the journey? Now sitting in Minneapolis, we have been on the road almost a week, driven almost 1500...