Pacific Crest Trail

The light has turned the sky a childish blue and the clouds the lightest of pinks. I feel as if I were in my…

Rocks are haphazardly thrust into the ground which lurches steeply downward under my feet. A sharp rock catches my left foot and my right…

I woke up late, still with that glorious feeling of freedom under my skin. I had 3G service and, instead of surging into action,…

I woke up too early, groggy with my feverish facebooking late into the night before. I awoke to the sounds of my roommate quietly…

“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,…