I’m getting ready for the upcoming holiday weekend (turkey, anyone?) and I thought I would share some of the food I will be packing for the road as we once again drive over to the Washington Coast for a bit of car camping and beach walking. Now, almost any of the recipes in my Paleo…
I can think of a billion reasons to #OptOutside the day after Thanksgiving. In fact, I can think of quite a few reasons to #OptOutside for Thanksgiving. And I have done so quite a few times in recent years. This week’s #NatureWritingChallenge topic is all about why we should #OptOutside on public lands and the…
This week’s topic for the #NatureWritingChallenge really had me thinking! “Your most memorable encounter with a stranger on public lands” should have been easy because we meet new-to-us people ALL the time while out on public lands. It is inevitable that we run into people we don’t know, even when we are trying to escape…
Editor’s note: Since posting this in 2018, there has been a lot of movement in the healthy, pre-made backpacking meals industry. Five of the businesses I originally mentioned have stopped operating. (I have updated which ones below.) I am always trying to stay on top of changes but you may encounter future changes at the…
Dear Santa, I hope it isn’t too soon to be writing out my Christmas wish-list but see, there is this Nature Writing Challenge thing and this week’s theme is “Your wish-list for Public Lands” and you seemed like the perfect person to share my wish-list with. You the professional procurer of wish-lists and all. Santa,…
Social media and the online world make pretty easy targets these days. Blamed for all kinds of social ills and quite a few of the world’s problems or at least it seems. It is true that it can be overwhelming and impersonal, often displacing face-to-face interaction with our neighbor next door but I am here…