Detours
We are are hiking our way through North Carolina for our holidays, freelancing some adventure after veering away from a few COVID outbreaks. The past week has seen five family …
Category: North Carolina
An Upright Pursuit
I always try to balance risks so that they are risks worth taking–by acquiring skills, experience, and maybe gear, too. After all, things do occasionally go wrong in the outdoors, …
Going Nowhere
My friends up north are very familiar with the “Bridge to Nowhere,” a controversial (and now dead) project in Southeast Alaska. Closer to home, Western North Carolina has its very …
Food and Drink / Maine / North Carolina / USA / Virginia
Making Connections
While hockey and seafood are both held on ice, they aren’t really connected…unless you happen to be watching a cooking show called Plates and Skates. This new Youtube series pairs …
Biking / North Carolina / USA
More Than Meets The Eye
One of the more elusive things to see in the wild is a wolf. I saw my first one in Yellowstone some years ago, and have been fortunate enough to …
Cabins / North Carolina / USA / Virginia / West Virginia
A Trip to the Office
For obvious reasons, this year has been more about pressing pause than pressing play. And the list of things we’ve paused feels long, including air travel, crowded spaces, shared river …
Biking / North Carolina / USA / Virginia
Vacationing at a Distance
This summer we had originally planned a trip far afield…but then COVID-19 changed the world and changed our plans. So we decided to stay closer in order to have more …
North Carolina / Packrafting / Paddling / USA
Stepping In Old Footprints
My last post was about the Adirondacks, a place that I’ve visited over and over through the last several decades. There are only a few destinations like that for me, …