A Journey to the West
A two-week long trip with national parks and hiking, catching up with old friends, and a World cup game.
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A Journey to the West: Part Six
We tend to describe and debate the spirit of a place by its character, its energy, using ephemeral concepts of culture or people or manmade institutions. DC is defined by being the…
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A Journey to the West: Part Five
For all of our endeavors, both guided and misguided, to experience nature’s bounties for recreation and sustenance or to exploit it for extraction and subjugation, I am certain the earth, were it…
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A Journey to the West: Part Four
The mountain. Surely there are few more awesome elements of our natural world, surpassed perhaps only by the seas and their boundless,unfathomable depths. The mountain is awesome in its original meaning, generating…
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A Journey to the West: Part Three
I consider myself a fairly easy person, opinionated, yes, and perhaps prone to the odd fit of hangriness but generally willing to go with the flow and enjoying myself regardless. When visiting…
