Wow, it’s been a minute

I’ve been having a blast this spring and now it’s officially summer! Yay! Since I returned home from Wisconsin last month, I’ve been busy working both of my jobs, and secretly planning a quick trip back to my hometown in Kansas to surprise my mother at the Smoky Hill River Festival! I hadn’t been back […]

Pardon my absence…

The last month has been a little rough, but not in necessarily bad ways. I’ve been busier than I have since I returned from the AT last fall. I committed to something that has taken the majority of my spare time, and that project will end in two weeks. I wanted to write a quick […]

Saying “YES!” to opportunity (aka Just Eat the Acid)

Saying “YES!” to opportunity means sometimes having to throw more logical or rational judgement out the window in the name of adventure, but sometimes it’s merely carving out moments in your day for new experiences in your life. It means eating questionably potent LSD while paddling the Shenandoah River, and eating at almost every deli […]

This was supposed to be about something else, but then….cats.

Do you ever have those days where you just can’t get anything done because your cats are too f’ing cute? Seems like that’s what has happened to me lately. This procrastination has led me to this abbreviated post. But I know some of you have had bad starts to the week, or are stick licking […]

Spaceteam!

Hiking for 5 months was a dream come true. Especially at 41 years old. I found out pretty quickly that I was in a smaller-represented age demographic on trail. I felt like there were two major age groups: those who were 18-30, and those who were 60+. In the former, I felt like there was […]

There are two types of hikers…Part 2

I kind of gave you a hard and fast introduction to myself with my last post. I find it somewhat difficult to put myself into certain boxes, but sometimes it helps when you can categorize yourself as X, Y, or Z. It gives you an identifier that allows others to connect to you. Having anxiety […]

There are two types of hikers…Part 1

June 8, 2018. I was standing on the side of the trail, not having even gone a mile yet, and I was completely pantsless. Or shorts-less, rather. I made a half-ass attempt to look for other hikers before I began to wash my shorts out with my Dr. Bronner’s. At that point, I had a […]