mara in soko (and beyond)

This blog is about to get (long-term) sporadic. At the end of March I'm heading to Georgia to begin thru hiking the Appalachian Trail. ...

I did it. We did it. 5365 meters. Telling the trekking story could take ages or be squashed into a few minutes. I'll save the detai...

In 4 days I will be in Nepal. It's real and it's not. No trip is ever quite real for me until I land. Through the goodbye's, s...

but I'm going to give you anyway: "Learn to like what doesn’t cost much. Learn to like reading, conversation, music. Learn to l...

Sometime in the last five years I plucked this comment off a friend's blog and onto a sticky note. I continually wish I would have recor...

New Years Resolutions piss me off because they suggest that we are in some way faulty; that we have been missing a problem's quite obvio...

That's not an option, that's a noun. My grandparents winter in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. You could blink and miss it, but...