How I turned my crossover into a budget adventure vehicle
Ready to explore more? The best adventure vehicle is probably the one you already own.
Thoughts and Musings
Lost in thought on a dusty road
Driving down the road, and my GPS took me down a dust-ridden dirt road. Is there a deeper meaning to it, or am I just driving?
It’s time to put down the phone
In a world where apps, notifications, and advertisers, compete for your attention, you can start living better when you put down the phone.
The view isn’t the point
You can’t always count on a view. You can’t always win. You can’t always end up exactly where you want to be. But through it all, you can do your best to enjoy the ride.
Beauty in the familiar: Returning to Crow Peak
Sometimes, returning to a previously hiked trail is a lot like visiting an old friend.
A great weekend gone wild: Or, what to do with a herd of bison.
Sometimes you take a spur of the moment side trip to a national park. And sometimes, that means a bunch of bison lick your car.
The magic and majesty of pizza
“Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, LET’S GO!”
-April Ludgate-
Complaining about the weather
It’s the time of year when the weather sneaks up on you, at least here
The wild beauty and incorrigible wasteland that is the airport
You’ll find few places as maddeningly frustrating, wildly captivating, and composed of chaos and the “space between spaces” as the wilderness and wasteland that is “The Airport”
Land Ethic 101: Part 3. Leave No Trace
If you’re ready to start developing your own land ethic, it’s helpful to start with a pre-existing framework. For me, that framework is Leave No Trace.
Land Ethic 101: Part 2. Why We Need a Land Ethic
Now that we know what a land ethic is, it’s a good time to discuss why we need one.
Land Ethic 101: Part 1. What is a Land Ethic?
It’s easy to love the great outdoors — they’re great! But we need to be on guard against loving them to death. The best defense? A land ethic. Not sure exactly what I mean by land ethic? Read on.
Much ado about mediocrity: what if we’re all ordinary?
Seriously, what if we’re all just ordinary?
Out of the Wild: What We Can Learn from Alaska’s Removal of the “Into the Wild” Bus
Since it was first published, Into the Wild has drawn people to the abandoned bus where Christopher McCandless died. Many of these kindred spirits required rescue themselves — so many so that the bus has finally been removed from the Stampede Trail. Why were so many people drawn to this artifact of one young man’s demise, and what can we learn from it?
Real Adventurers Have Day Jobs
Worried that your 9 to 5 (or any job for that matter) is getting in the way of your destiny as an adventurer? Don’t be.