Show & Tell: A Thing Called Love

After mating, a female grasshopper uses her ovipositor to lay an egg pod containing several dozen tightly packed eggs.
Location: Brookgreen Gardens – Murrells Inlet, SC

Show & Tell: Be Proud of Who You Are

Be yourself. Be beautiful.
Location: Seattle Pride Parade 2009 – Seattle, WA

Show & Tell: Where the Wild Things Are

I was too afraid to sleep in my tent in the Hoh Rainforest because I heard growling coming from the woods while tending my campfire. So I slept in my car with a mouse that got in when I was unpacking. It was a long night.
Location: Hoh Rainforest at Olympic National Park, WA

Show & Tell: Home on the Range

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam

where the buffalo are not branded

wearing ear tags

and posing for tourists on a paved road.
Location: Custer State Park, SD

How to Plan for a Trip into the Unknown

One of the most common questions I get when I tell people that I solo road tripped the lower 48 is:
How do you plan for something like that? And why don’t you have a van?
The truth is I never planned to solo road trip the lower 48. It just happened. And that [...]

Show & Tell: The Winding Road of Road Schooled

The winding road in the header photo of Road Schooled was taken at Joshua Tree National Park.
Location: Joshua Tree National Park – Twentynine Palms, CA

Show & Tell: Dropping Out of the Box

When I was in grad school I felt like I was in an inescapable box. Dropping out and hitting the road to somewhere set me free.
Location: Brookgreen Gardens – Murrells Inlet, SC

Show & Tell: At the Edge of a Waterfall

I hiked up this waterfall

and looked down the edge of the falls despite being afraid of heights. It was totally worth it.
Location: Vernal Fall at Yosemite National Park, CA

Show & Tell: Behind the Waterfall

This is what the world looks like

from behind a waterfall.
Location: Silver Falls State Park, OR

Too Fat to Ride the Mules

For years I thought about hiking the Grand Canyon. Last summer I went to the south rim of the Grand Canyon and decided not to hike down because I was feeling under the weather and wasn’t sure if I would make it back up in the scorching heat. So I looked into riding [...]

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Road Schooled

Lessons from the Road to Somewhere