walk with me down the trail
walk with me down the trail
For two years, we lived in a tent trailer while traveling the American West. To document the kind of adventure I’d never have again, I wrote our stories.
We’ve left the RV life for now, but these weekly vignettes still explore adventure’s ups and downs, our relationship with the outdoors, the wonderful disaster of parenting, and the struggle to catch lightening in the creative bottle.
Away We Stay: Suspension
Even more than trusting the constancy of the solar system, is the trusting of their bodies - the confidence in connective tissue to move the way it has many times before. The recognition that it's best to just let loose (ish). It turns out the only way to fly again is to unfurl.
Away We Stay: Songs of The Road
Birdsong can be louder than engines. Focus is the instrument that amplifies the lovely and dampens the constant hum of commerce. It is possible to hear the thing that fills and silence the thing that doesn't.
Away We Stay: Elegance & Violence
This is a game that is thoroughly elegant below the knees and unabashadly violent above them. These humans soar and dance and sidestep and sprint without not one iota of attention paid to what their skates are doing.