Do you think about spices when you want to plan your backpacking meals for the trail? One meal can be made into a variety of others with just a change of spice added to a familiar at-home meal or back-country dish. Let me tell you about my favorite place in Seattle for spice inspiration. It…
This week’s Nature Writing Challenge comes to you with just 20 minutes left to write so you are going to get some pretty amazing pictures instead! The topic is “Where is your favorite gateway town outside America’s public lands and what makes it so great?” Any memorable experiences? Well, if you just finished reading my…
#ThrowbackThursday This is part of a series of journal entries I have made while section hiking the Pacific Crest Trail since 2013 over on Trailjournals.com. I am moving them here to Must Hike Must Eat and updating them with photos (and maybe fixing typos). You can, also, head over to Trailjournals.com and read as many…
This post was originally published on December 6, 2016. How often do you think about what you eat as being influenced more on social expectation than what your body needs? Does what other people think influence what you eat? When do other people have the right to have an opinion on what you eat?…
Here we are, another week of the Nature Writing Challenge and the topic is a memorable insect moment on public lands. If you are like me and have spent a fair amount of time on public lands, you have your fair share of insect stories. And I bet is safe to say that most of…
#ThrowbackThursday This is part of a series of journal entries I have made while section hiking the Pacific Crest Trail since 2013 over on Trailjournals.com. I am moving them here to Must Hike Must Eat and updating them with photos (and maybe fixing typos). Look for them on Thursdays or you can head over to…