“I’m scared.” That phrase has helped me in recent months and here I am afraid again. I’ve already written about many of the things I’m afraid of and you can read all about that in an earlier post. To summarize, I’m mostly afraid of the unknown. My brain is extra active in these situations and…

I wrote most of this a few months ago in Oregon while on my road trip and like some other posts never actually posted it for whatever reason. On my personal website / journal that very few people even see. I’m trying to get over that even just for me to look back on in…

If you told me five, six, seven, ten years ago that I would devote months of my life to hiking I would have called BS. For the first 31 years of my life I rarely ever hiked. On paper it should have been a no brainer but for whatever reason it wasn’t. As a kid…

It’s not really my cup of tea (neither is… tea…). That is unless I’m singing karaoke in front of all my coworkers. There’s just something about that microphone and my desire to be a lead singer despite no musical talent. This is not about karaoke, however. I am the center of attention during my Mardi…

Today is the first day of my short Mardi Himal trek in Nepal. The warm up hike I chose for Everest Base Camp. Today also would have been my eleventh anniversary at my former job had I not decided to go on this journey I’ve been on. I’m 7500 miles and a world away from…

I simply cannot sleep on planes. I’m very jealous of those who can. It’s like a cheat code. Time travel. The rare people like the woman next to me on my flight home from Peru who one minute into her nature documentary fell asleep with her mouth wide open and slept like that the entire…