It’s a core anxiety of our age. In our current global reality, you feel like bad things are happening and there’s nothing you can do about it…but also, you feel like you can’t just stand by and watch. You need to do something, you just don’t know what... This might be an unexpected plot twist, but hear me out. With all of the garbage going on, it’s a great time to familiarize yourself with the first truly American philosophical movement–the Transcendentalists.

I lived five months outside, mostly just walking. I read some. I journaled some. Angel and I had long, meaningful conversations with other weirdos that helped us understand what’s important in life...In the process, I was absorbed into a new way of living grounded in nature, creating things, simplicity, and actual human connection.

Lessons about DIY pilgrimage, backyard adventures, and urban thru-hiking from a really long walk in Portland.

The gods may be long gone, but there's still magic on the climb to Mt Olympus

Aotearoa New Zealand has a way of making you care less about things, and more about the outdoors.

Listen, I know this is strangely specific, but I keep running in to people who have left their religion and latched on to the outdoors...

Other people have come up with definitions of "dirtbag" but I wrote the book on it so I'm staking my claim.