PNW Roadtrip 09.15-09.24
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." -Lao Tzu
We embarked on a journey with no intention of getting back home quickly and no care of how many miles we tacked on the odometer.
Read More"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." -Lao Tzu
We embarked on a journey with no intention of getting back home quickly and no care of how many miles we tacked on the odometer.
Read MoreWho knew Stairway to Heaven was more than a 70's rock song?!
Read More"We carry a means to shelter and eat and sleep, sure - but it's so much more than that. Backpacking is a means to loosen our grip on civilized reality, a portal to escape time set by clocks, to undress pretenses and simply exist." -Marisa Jarae
Read MoreIt really doesn’t matter where in the world you are if it’s a first time on a trail.
Read MoreThis is always the hardest part of the whole blog post, thinking of something clever to say.
Uhhhhhh...mischief managed?
Read MoreWhy doesn't America tell knock-knock jokes?! BECAUSE FREEDOM RINGS BABY!!!
Read More“Half dome was perfectly inaccessible, being probably the only one of all the prominent points about Yosemite which has never been and will never be trodden by human foot.”
-Josiah Whitney, 1868. George Anderson was the first person to climb Half Dome seven years later...and we ascended it a century and a half later.
Read MoreIf you want to die and cry at the end of a hike...do this one.
Both are metaphorical, please don't really die or cry. This hike will make you smile, how's that?
Read MoreWarning: will cause urge to pack a bag and tackle this hike.
Read More"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
-John Muir