The Struggle Bus Delivers
The Struggle Bus may be no fun to ride, but it provides excellent trailside service. I’d walked 4 miles on the road out of North Bend, when the Struggle Bus…
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Poets Must Ride Bicycles
Over the past three days, I have slackpacked 40 miles from Seattle to North Bend, on the I-90 Trail, the Mountains to Sound Greenway, the East Lake Sammamish trail, the…
A Life You Love Beside You
Rod and I seem to be walking two different caminos. Mine is pleasantly challenging and filled with firsts and discovery, while Rod’s is painful and exhausting. So, how did I…
Stronger at the Broken Places
Rod’s knee is hurt. That means I’m pulling the cart all the time, and at least every other day is a slack day of 0-5 miles to allow for recovery.…
Highs and Lows
The past two days were an odd split: 5 miles and 18 miles. Yesterday, we chose to walk a short, easy day and rough camp one more night in the…
Big Ideas
There’s this thing we do when planning a Camino: we say we’ll get off the trail to get to an accommodation, then backtrack to exactly where we got off the…
Day 1: The first of many
Spoiler alert: we did not wake to clear skies. We woke to a downpour and a puddle under our tent that was soaking through the floor despite a “waterproof” footprint.…
The Department of Wander 