Originally written for hobby blog 8 June 2018 As is made evident on this blog, I have an interest in hiking. As such, I’ve been drawn to the experiences of other solo hikers, especially in what drives them to go on these journeys and how they tackle (or don’t tackle) the trials they inevitably face. …
Imagine this: you’ve walked 15 km over multiple hours with a pack that is at least 50 pounds, you took the time to scan your site, pick the perfect place to pitch your tent or hammock, got some lake water boiling, freshened up, and finally, you excitedly pull out your notebook, set your only pencil …
Originally written for hobby blog on 4 May, 2018 Departures is perhaps one of my favoutite TV shows and I’ve watched and re-watched it several times. It follows the travels of mainly Scott Wilson and Justin Lukach (with Andre Dupuis emerging from behind the camera rarely) over the course of three years as they leave family …
I am still pretty young (not 30 yet) and if I’ve been camping and hiking a majority of my life, my parents have at least a decade’s more experience on me, so here’s a few tips from them, separated mainly into six categories: packing, sleeping, eating, drinking, clothing, and playing Packing Be good at playing …
Originally a page from my hobby blog Some of these words I discovered from Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day. Some are untranslateable words from other languages or created by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows or other sources. Nonetheless, these words I feel a personal connection with, or just find pretty. I hope you enjoy. Aesthete: Someone with deep …
An earlier draft of this was called “I’m Neither a Survivalist or a Creative Writing Professor,” and that still applies. Like with anything else, I’ll ask you to defer to experts for expert opinions while sharing my own personal experiences within nature and writing. I will tell you that I have been visiting drive-in campgrounds …
(Originally written for hobby blog 1 June, 2018) Somehow, you’ve managed to enter the infamous Barkley Marathons (no, the “s” is not a typo) and received your letter of condolences in the mail. You make your way out to Wartburg, Tennessee. You’ve paid you $1.60 plus an article of clothing to enter as well as …
By simply asking Google to give a definition of “nature” you get two definitions, but if you dig a little deeper, not even straying from the first page of results, you can pull up the Merriam-Webster, Collins, Cambridge, and Macmillan dictionaries that’ll have anywhere from three to nine definitions. Just from this knowledge alone, it’s …
Ah geez, how the heck am I supposed to introduce myself here? What am I supposed to say? I like long walks on the beach? I like my coffee black? My ongoing existential crisis is slowly crushing me into a paste? Who knows? For all my writing prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, perhaps the …