Road Trips Made Me Fall in Love With the Natural Beauty of America — But They Are Hardly Eco-Friendl
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO—Like most of my fellow Americans, I love nothing more than packing up my car and hitting the open road. Ever since...
So, You Want to Hear About My Week at Burning Man...
BLACK ROCK CITY, NEVADA—It’s 9PM, almost time for the hippies to burn their toys. Have your fun, but leave no trace they said, a maxim...
A Pre-Dawn Summit of Sleeping Giant (Or, A Novice Tries His Hand at Hunting)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO—It seems to me that everything worth doing in life requires waking up far before the sun rises. I was supposed to...
A Short Treatise on Decommodification at Burning Man
BLACK ROCK CITY, NEVADA—Burning Man is famous for three of its central tenets: radical self-reliance, radical inclusion, and...
13 Seemingly Obvious Tips for the Amateur Hiker, That Might Not Be So Obvious
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO—Hiking is nothing more than taking a long walk. One could wax forever about the psychological and physical...
10 Ways You Know You're Becoming a Mountain Man
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO— Mountain folks are a clannish bunch. As a former outsider to this lifestyle, I've become accustomed to the...
11.5 Miles is Enough: Hiking the Devil's Causeway
FLAT TOPS WILDERNESS AREA, COLORADO—I’ve only been to Iceland once, but I feel like I’ve been to Iceland twice. It’s the middle of...
16 Oddball Observations from Traveling in Southeast Asia
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA- I was cleaning out some old papers today, and found a whole bunch of scribbles from a trip through...
I Like to Read. How Do You Unwind?
I distinctly recall spending a cozy, dark, early afternoon, curled up in a small-upholstered couch at the end of a hostel hallway...
Sometimes, You Just Need To Go Climb a Damn Mountain
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK—There’s never a good reason to be woken up at 2AM. Phone call, alarm clock, knock at the door…it’s all...