Last month I read Curtis Sittenfeld's Rodham (a fictional account of what might have happened to Hillary Clinton had she not married Bill), and in it the author describes how Hillary would create her 'nest' each night: burrowed into her bed, robe and ...
Recent Blog Posts
Video: Camino Aragonés Pt 2
If you missed part one, click here to watch the first part of my journey on the Camino Aragonés. After those first 5-days (beginning in France, walking up a mountain in the rain, crossing into Spain and descending into a completely different ...
Becoming a YouTuber?
January tends to be a really creative time for me. It was the month when I first created this blog. The month when I hatched the idea for my e-book. The month I started a Patreon, the month I explored posting photographs on Shutterstock (that one ...
December Recap: Winter is Coming
It feels as though I was just writing my November recap post, and here I am again, at the end of another month, another year. At the time of writing, New Year's Eve is tomorrow, and it's going to be a quiet one. Fitting, of course, to have a quiet ...
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- November Recap: Ringing bells and blazing sunsets and writing the book!
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- Dreaming of Walking Again
- The Road Trip
Trail Guides
Camino Aragonés Guide: Essential Info to help plan your walk
I can't remember when I first heard of the Camino Aragonés, or when it became a walk that I added to my "list", or even when it moved to priority status. I just know that at some point, somewhere, I must have read more about it and thought, "Huh. Sounds like a pretty good Camino." I've ...
Planning a Walk on Hadrian’s Wall Path
One of my intentions with this blog is to begin to provide more useful content for others who are planning their own long-distance walking adventures, and so in this spirit, I'm going to be writing up a few short guides to some of the walks that I've done. And first up: how to plan for a walk on ...
In the Footsteps of Pilgrims; an Overview of the Camino de San Salvador
Quien va a Santiago y no a San Salvador, sirve al criado y deja al Senor. He who goes to Santiago and not to San Salvador, honors the servant and forsakes the Lord. I saw these words painted onto the wall of the albergue in La Robla. It was the end of my first day walking the Camino de San ...
