A Template for DIY Pilgrimage and Backyard Adventure: Lessons from an Urban Thru-Hike in Portland
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- 7 min
The DIY Pilgrim: A checklist for transformative travel based on age-old pilgrimage principles.


- 16 min
Go alone, but take people with you: Individual pilgrimage as a community endeavor.

- 13 min
Travel is my church: Using ritual to turn your trip into a pilgrimage (Go on, make it weird!)

- 14 min
How to travel with intention: Deciding what your trip is going to teach you


- 9 min
Why do people go on adventures? It's so simple that even a child could understand.


- 13 min
Pilgrimage means finding a place with a good story and moving your ass towards it.

- 11 min
Take a month off and it'll change your life: Messing things up enough to make a difference.


- 2 min
84 of the world’s best long distance pilgrimage and adventure routes.


- 8 min
The GAP Month: How do you make travel life-changing?

- 13 min
Taiwan Cycle Route 1: What English-speakers need to know to bike around Taiwan.

- 20 min
Why biking Taiwan Cycle Route 1 was the virtually perfect trip.

- 10 min
12 Books that Define Dirtbag Culture (and a few more that should)


- 14 min
Ghost sighting: Crybaby Bridge, West Alexandria, Ohio. June 22, 2022.


- 13 min
This year I decided to become a writer

- 8 min
Kurangaituku: The case to make a surreal Maori myth the next book you read.


- 16 min
Seattle music history, by way of artists that I've behaved strangely around.


- 10 min
The Hero’s Journey: Narrative therapy to write yourself out of a dark black hole.


- 14 min
The Old Dogs of Olympus

- 9 min
Everything I need to know about New Zealand’s pandemic response I learned in a bar in 2018