Aer Parris

“When you’re smiling, The whole world smiles at you, When you’re laughing, The sun comes shining through…” I woke up wet, dirty, and cranky….

Well you were a dancer and I was a rag, The song in my head was all that I had, Hope was a letter…

Three summers ago I biked across the country. It took 70 days. That was the longest I had ever traveled continuously for. And today,…

Today was a perfect day. I woke early and before I knew it I had hiked the six hard miles that came before Muir…

I have made camp in the midst of a tall, sparse wood. I made dinner (rice with pasta in a “chicken flavor” with too…

I am currently in a swarm of mosquitoes. They are evil. But don’t worry, I now have put myself under my sleeping quilt, to…

The trees, the tallest I’ve encountered on this trip, are high above me, stretching up into the ever darkening sky, waiting for the stars…

“I am suddenly close to something very great and very large, something containing me and all this around me, something I only dimly perceive,…

Today marks another zero by Lake Rae while we wait for Rainbow Dash’s toe to heal. I am currently under siege by a massive…

It is 3.18pm and instead of walking, I am quietly writing on a large rock looking out on a serene high mountain lake. The…

Sometimes the littlest things cause the largest issues. Today a toe did just that. We had woken up late (7.36am to be exact) and…

I awoke in a massive, soft bed on a fluffy pillow and beautiful stacks of blankets. I turned over to find an empty spot…