It began with 2 years living on the road

The Vignettes
To document an adventure we'd never have again

The Vignettes
And it became Away We Go

The Vignettes
Now, it's 200+ adventure vignettes for you to explore

The Vignettes

Beth Downing 8/6/24 Beth Downing 8/6/24

Webs

The benefits of being on a quiet trail alone: the quiet, and the aloneness. The drawbacks: potentially spicy wildlife encounters, and spiderwebs.

Beth Downing 7/30/24 Beth Downing 7/30/24

The Blurs

The steaming sand blurs the sea-to-sky horizon. The water floods over my feet, blurring the human-to-earth horizon. There is no cell phone signal so the movement of time has blurred the morning-to-afternoon horizon.

Beth Downing 7/23/24 Beth Downing 7/23/24

Quiet is a Bandaid

I had thoughts about how this would go. Pictures in my head of my early morning hike all by myself. Communing with the rainforest. Listening, actually listening, because that’s what I was here for. Taking my time and stepping outside myself. In short, trying very hard to produce a meaningful experience in a certain place at a certain time and in a certain way.

Beth Downing 7/16/24 Beth Downing 7/16/24

Inevitable

I fell apart and piece myself back together in a fern-carpeted, moss-draped, tree-shaded forest threaded by a stream.

It began with 2 years living on the road

To document an adventure we'd never have again

And it became Away We Go

Now, it's 200+ adventure vignettes for you to explore

Webs

The Blurs

Quiet is a Bandaid

Inevitable

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