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: Bathymetry
In the Wild, Self Beth Downing In the Wild, Self Beth Downing

Away We Stay: Bathymetry

What does knowing the depths actually tell us? Would a map of the curves of my own soul, including the shallows and the dark bits, help me navigate the surface with any more grace? Would the cartographic process bring me to an understanding?

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