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A Revisit: "Everything's Amazing and No One is Happy"
Yeah, flying is so not incredible. ;)Photo: arjanveenMy brother and I were discussing flight costs of coming home for Thanksgiving. Usually, I would make the drive but the ol' Mazda is feeling her age...
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Ski the East: Clocking Vert at Whiteface
Whiteface: It skis like the West"Ski the East" is a series of articles as I toured from maritime Canada to the northeast US in a quest to uncover the culture and vibe of the ski community and areas of...
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New Year. These Goals.
2013 ended. Isn't that just so typical?Taken somewhere on America's "Loneliest Road"When you write for others for a living, you don't really get around to your own blog. Well, I don't; perhaps I'm just...
View Article2014: Is this the year you live life?
You're still doing the same thing you hated last year? Life isn't getting longer, you know.
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The Space Between
There were intentions of taking daily pictures this year so I could maintain at least a weekly blog post. Yet here I am, over a month after making that sort-of resolution and finding that I have made...
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Canada: Where the Wild Things Are
This injury has me at 47 days without walking, without my car, without snow and ice. I'm one person in over a million strung along mountains I cannot access but that are crucial to my well-being....
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Roughing the Road to Recovery
A really boring thing they like to call "exercise." Prescribed torture is more accurate....12...13 (voice shaking)...14 (leg shaking)"FIFTEEN!" I dig my knuckle into my burning hip flexor and sit up...
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Healing Waters: The Case for Kids Outdoors
Yesterday I was told to remove one crutch and walk on my dang leg already. The doctor couldn't believe I hadn't removed both of them at this point; my reply was that no one told me I could do it. So,...
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Work Until it Happens: (Even Major) Setbacks Can't Keep You Down
My 1st adventure back.Photo: Brent MalyshI don't always have pretty things to say. Forgive me.2014 has seen a smile on my face for the majority of it. It wasn't fake; I felt it in my soul. But at the...
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Writer's Block
My knee will never do this again.My brain isn't ready to write. Can you tell by my very creative blog title?Yet here I am: motivated, with no ideas coming. If you give me an assignment, I'll whip out...
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My Place Here
I don't know this place.Its hills, its further mountains, its farthest glaciers. I don't know them. I want to. I'm in an in-between place, a place where I'm not sure if I'm a permanent part. I question...
View ArticleMoving Back into My Car (Just for a Night)
There’s no reason I can’t sleep in my car like I used to. Several times after my return from life on the road I felt homesick. Initially, I was staying on a friend’s couch in the middle of “Suburbia”,...
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The Trail Less Traveled
This post was written in partnership with REI.I'm not really a hiker.I don't hike for the love of burning quads, burning lungs, or a sweaty back hugged up against a day pack.If anything, I'm a seer....
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Exploring Canada's Off Season
Expedia.ca asked me to share some of my favorite destinations in Canada. I tend to travel to “destinations” in the offseason because I get them all to myself, but I don’t mind sharing them with a few...
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Pivotal Moments in One Road Tripper's Life
There are pivotal moments in your life. I’m still trying to figure out mine. I don't know where the impulse came from; maybe it was the culmination of spontaneous midnight road trips I took in...
View ArticleBuilding Someone Else's Dream: Lesson Learned
I'm back to freelancing full-time. It's a strange thing, to have a steady paycheck then walk away from it when you aren't sure that it's the right thing to do (but in your heart, you know it's the...
View ArticleI Love Photography and Writing. (Right?)
I was on a mission. I'd been tasked with providing photos for an upcoming campaign. They needed them straight away and I agreed straight away. Seconds later, I backed up, realizing they wanted me,...
View ArticleDrawing from Outdoor Inspiration
This was the first time I'd sat down to draw in a very long time. Back when I was studying landscape architecture, one of the professors told us to get a journal and sketch every day. Being able to...
View ArticleEven in Ohio: Go East for an Outdoor Adventure Mecca
Yes, this is Ohio. Photo: Analogue Kid "Where are you from?" It's no longer a standard question that I ask with a half-listening ear. It's a great conversation starter because I've usually been there,...
View ArticleAdventure: When Life's Calling isn't According to Plan
"A calling is not some carefully crafted plan. It's what's left when the plan goes horribly wrong." -Jeff Goins, The Art of Work In my world, purists would call this "adventure": Something must go...
View ArticleOh, the Places You'll Go (on the Backroads of BC)
Not bad, hey? Mt. Cooper and his friends in Goat Range Provincial Park I cracked the window in preparation for writing. I like to have as much natural light, natural air (is there ever unnatural air?)...
View ArticleWe are Not Entitled: Internet Stardom & Reality
What is the perfect photograph? The perfect story, the perfect article? What's the perfect social media post? The perfect filter, the perfect selfie? The world is chasing perfection. It's no longer an...
View ArticleMy Life of Entrepreneurial Ideas & Hamster Wheels
I didn't take this photo. I should have looked for one that I took, as I'm sure there's something more fitting in my library, but I just want to hit publish. So, this here is a CC0 image--no credit...
View Article412 Words on Not Being Brilliant
Every morning I'm surrounded by windows framing a sky. Minute by minute, a layer of blue is lifted until a starless, aqua color remains. Sometimes I'm conscious that time is passing. I can hear the day...
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