I know you are all wondering if I was able to eat paleo while in the UK. Well, I’m hear to tell you that it is completely possible to do so. Although I was not able to visit any paleo specific restaurants on my trip, the country was covered with places eager to serve you…
This week’s topic for the #NatureWritingChallenge really had me thinking! “Your most memorable encounter with a stranger on public lands” should have been easy because we meet new-to-us people ALL the time while out on public lands. It is inevitable that we run into people we don’t know, even when we are trying to escape…
Dear Santa, I hope it isn’t too soon to be writing out my Christmas wish-list but see, there is this Nature Writing Challenge thing and this week’s theme is “Your wish-list for Public Lands” and you seemed like the perfect person to share my wish-list with. You the professional procurer of wish-lists and all. Santa,…
Social media and the online world make pretty easy targets these days. Blamed for all kinds of social ills and quite a few of the world’s problems or at least it seems. It is true that it can be overwhelming and impersonal, often displacing face-to-face interaction with our neighbor next door but I am here…
It is hard to believe it has been 8 years since we took a road trip to move my baby brother to the University of Nebraska. Along the way we stopped at as many national parks and monuments as I could link up before my family called mutiny and we ended up at Wall Drug. …
I bet if you ask anyone who has hiked the Pacific Crest Trail through Oregon if they made time to stop and visit the Dee Wright Observatory while crossing the summit of the McKenzie Highway through the Willamette National Forest, you will most like get a blank stare. The what? I imagine if you ask…