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.
Falling & Failing
You’re afraid of falling and you’re afraid of failing. The difference is the “i” and that difference is how much of yourself you bring into the uncontrolled process of meeting the ground.
Untaken Trails
And yet, the trails on these maps - the long lines that don’t intersect with any of their kind - those are the ones that haunt me.
Away We Stay: State Change
Each crystal transforms into water and it takes only the briefest of seconds. How often do you get to witness the precise moment of a state change?
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.