Trying to plan a girl’s getaway for my dog and me proved to be harder than expected during a pandemic and also a disastrous fire season for the state of California. But the outdoor wanderer in me said, yes, I had to do it. This outdoor gal had wanderlust and revenge travel was calling her …
What on God’s green earth does an outdoor adventurer do when the outdoors are closed to the public? I’m the kind of wanderlust filled hiker who hikes every day, rain, sleet, snow, COVID, I just don’t stop. I mean unless unprecedented southern California wildfires close all the forests within three hundred miles. What the hell …
For so many Americans, we are now coming up on a whole year of pandemic living and we are just hoping and praying for a healthy new year. Or possibly just a normal New Year! Normal life in 2020 meant staying at home, furloughs from work, gyms closed or being socially distanced from friends and …
On my 40th birthday after planning for months to scale one hell of a mountain peak, you can bet your ass I would enjoy some buffalo blue cheese something or other. I mean, that is, eventually, but first I had to hike twenty-four miles or so with over 6,000 feet elevation gain. I was excited …
My first morning I woke up under overcast yet oh so humid skies in Bangalore India last December I had no clue that worldwide travel would soon be a thing of the past. I had absolutely no idea that the entire world would be shut down three months in the future. I so wished we …