"You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul." - Unknown I made the Olympic Peninsula Loop. It might not have been the...

"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary Mount Rainier was a force! It took two hours to get to Paradise...

"F-E-A-R has two meanings. Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything and Rise. The choice is yours." - Zig Zigler Fern and I traveled...

"Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone in a wilderness - an untamed unpredictable place of solitude and...

"It feels good to be lost in the right direction." Unknown The first part of my stay in Wyoming was breathtaking. The Tetons and Jackson...

WOW! Yellowstone was an experience! I was incredibly intimidated by this place, especially at the thought of going there by myself. It...

I am going to call this a cautionary tale. If only it were a tale. Here's how it went down... I was traveling from Jackson Hole to Lava...

"Keep close to nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit...

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a small place you occupy in the world." Fern and I had no idea we were in for such a treat when we...

"Our preconceived notions of how we think things should be are sometimes very different than what we actually need. We have to be open...

The big day arrived to leave. I had mentally and physically prepared for this for a couple of months, but when the day came, I was filled...

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu This quote is so relevant to me, but it should be... "The journey...

Fern got her name because she is... up there in age, she is sturdy, her name means protection, and she's now green. She underwent an...