Travels. Books. Explorations.
My alma mater, Pacific Lutheran University, just published a story profiling me as an author and national park ranger. If you'd like to learn a little more about motivates me everyday, including in my jobs as a writer, park ranger, and traveler, head over to http://www.plu.edu/marcom/news/2016/08/01/park-ranger-plog/ I am grateful for all the study abroad opportunities …
Make Sure You Have a Map (and Other Bits of Travel Advice I'm Glad I Ignored) is now published, and available in paperback and for e-readers at amazon.com. The book is a fun look at 20 bits of travel advice, and the adventures that happen when I choose to ignore that advice. Covering stories from …
Looking for a bit of insider knowledge about Make Sure You Have a Map? Here are a few fun facts about the book and my writing process: While I travel, I am a creature of habit: all my writings from my travels are written in black or brown Gallery Leather journals. Besides writing in these …
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Summer travel: the lure of the open road, the opportunity to jet off to a far-off country. Summer camping trip with my family when I was young introduced me to traveling many years ago, and though I do most of my own big trips in the fall and winter (it’s when I have time off), …
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What’s the worst travel advice you’ve ever been given? I have been given advice both good and bad before my travels, and am happy to announce the titles of twenty stories of travel advice I am glad I ignored, travel lesson I had to learn along the way as I explored more than a dozen …
I’m excited to officially announce my next book, Make Sure You Have a Map (And Other Bits of Travel Advice I’m Glad I Ignored)! My second book will be a fun look at bad travel advice, and the stories that have come from ignoring this advice during my travels in twelve countries. Taking slightly sketchy …
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It’s hard for me to believe, but it has been two years now since the publication of Misspelled Paradise. It seems like a good time to give a few updates on the book, my traveling, and my writing. Misspelled Paradise is still consistently in the top 50 books about Colombia on amazon.com (and frequently in …
New book alert! I am excited to be a contributing writer to The Wonder of It All: 100 Stories from the National Park Service, published just in time for the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. My article in the book is "Going Off Trail," a story about grizzly bears, volcanoes, and a lack …
April 23 was World Book Day, celebrating the hundreds of years and millions of books that we are today lucky enough to have the option to read. Whether ancient medieval manuscripts, shiny paperbacks, or electronic e-readers, books come in all shapes and sizes. Their content is a varied as the topics humans think about and—let’s …
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Writers, philosophers, and nomads across the globe have been writing about the travel for thousands of years. Men and women from all walks of life have written about the value of travel, the reasons to travel, and the debate about the “right” way to travel. Here are a smattering of some of my favorite travel …
