2022 The Northern Route – Gullfoss
1 September – I left Gullfoss this morning and for the first 3-4 hours passed through primarily agricultural country: hay fields and pastures, sheep and horses, no cows to be seen. Then after going east for a while on Hwy. 1 the scenery changed—I entered what’s...
Thoughts From My Journal – Natchez Trace Parkway
*4-23: I was hiking an unfamiliar trail a couple days ago and when it made a sharp turn, I followed it rather than pausing for what looked like an inviting creek spot in the distance; I was focused on the trail, a double-edged sword that seems to obstruct as much as...
Thoughts From My Journal – Sonoran Desert 2
1-28: Last day here and I took off on a trail headed west out of the campground. It crossed three sizable washes, which for me are always evocative and for desert flora are like a magnet that draws them in to make relatively dense populations that follow its path....
Thoughts From My Journal – Sonoran Desert
1-27: I noted that the plants cactus seeds choose to settle next to are called nurse-plants, and I’m beginning to think this whole desert is my collective nurse biome. I just spent another couple hours on the ridge and the trails going to and from it. On the way up I...