Day 17: 31 March, 23.4 miles today, 328.5 miles total, Superstition Wilderness And I’d thought the day before had been exhausting. The day started with a gentle walk down to the Picketpost Mountain trailhead, where… Read More »Random Misadventures on the Arizona Trail, part 3: hitting the wall
Day 107: 01 August, 21.1 miles today, 1684.9 miles total, Teton Wilderness, WY Hitchhiking, the guide stresses, is illegal in Dubois. We’d had our thumbs out in front of the post office for less than… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 17: the last days of Wyoming
Day 96: 21 July, 19.7 miles today, 1507.3 miles total, somewhere in WY The five of us sat in the McDonald’s, our greasy breakfasts long finished, nursing our second or third large coffees and drawing… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 16: a terrible, beautiful place
I thought about smoking all the time. All. The. Time. It was somewhere in my mind, often lurking in the background, but more often demanding attention away from whatever I trying to focus on. I… Read More »Ashes in Your Mouth, part 3
It started as an impulse purchase at a convenience store or a liquor store or somewhere else people where people go to exchange money for questionable life choices. I’d been aware of vaping only as… Read More »Ashes in Your Mouth, part 2
The idea was simple and convoluted in equal measure. At the age of 19, some seven years after my babysitter had bummed me my first cigarette and a year after I had celebrated the freedom… Read More »Ashes in Your Mouth, part 1