I have had some time to think about my experience in Canada after falling and injuring myself and thus ending up in the emergency room at the Port Hardy Primary Health Care Center. There is always that talk about the difference between American and Canadian health care and I had a chance to experience it…
Do your adventures sometimes end up taking a turn you didn’t expect? Do you ALLOW your adventures to do so? I shared a beach walk that we did in Oregon in December, the hike picked randomly out of Day Hiking The Oregon Coast book. But I didn’t share the WHOLE story of what happened to…
John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, is credited with the popular saying, “Agree to disagree”. He is quoted during a memorial sermon to a good friend in 1770, “In these we may think and let think, we may ‘agree to disagree’. But in the meantime, let us hold fast the essentials…” We can disagree on…
I have memories of running away from home at least two times as a child. The first was somewhere around 2nd and 3rd grade. My memory involves a sunny day, a backpack, saltines crackers and making it as far as the golf course just outside my neighborhood. The second was in 4th grade and I…
I have to admit, most of the time when I go out into the wilderness, I do not want to come back. Back to reality. Back to the drama raging in our world. Sometimes I come back to find out someone famous has died of a drug overdose. Yet another bombing. Sometimes I come back to…
As I figured it would be, posting here on the blog will be spotty as I continue with my summer filled with hiking, family camping and other assorted outdoor activities. You can find more details about my latest 5 day PCT hike on my post, And That’s A Wrap-Oregon PCT. This is a story that…