I can’t believe I’m typing this because camping, come on, bro, you don’t need a master’s degree to set up a tent! But it seems like most campers I meet are very unintelligent. That’s just my professional opinion, one week into a four-week-long camping trip. The big thing that stands out in my mind about …
There is no better breakfast snack while out for a fifteen-mile morning hike than Keto Sriracha Jerky. You may not be able to enjoy bacon and eggs on the trail at over nine thousand feet. However, you can have a tasty and spicy bacon snack from a ziplock bag. Does cold bacon at nine a.m. …
Late August 2024. We were two weeks into our four-month-long summer vacation. So far, I had climbed Mt Whitney in a single day. I had also hiked over two hundred miles in thirty days. If anyone deserves an afternoon at a Carson Valley day spa, it was this sweaty hiker! The late summer of 2024 …
Four days at Del Mar and I’m officially a woman of leisure who smells faintly of sunscreen, horses, and (mostly) winning betting strategies. Friends, family, food, and placing deeply scientific bets on the fillies—plus the occasional handsome colt who caught my eye—made this the exact fall escape I didn’t know I needed. Del Mar on …
How did I spend two days hovering over the toilet, five whole days not being able to eat and I still can’t fit my fat ass in my favorite romper? And after that, I spent five days stacking four cords of wet eucalyptus wood and my favorite shorts from last summertime still don’t fit. Let …



