Ok, I've been using the word "week" loosely to make neat chapters. Forgive me. Here is the link to this project, and at the bottom of this post there is a list of resources on the topic of homelessness if you are interested in learning more. Day 31 I walked out of my hotel into... Continue Reading →
Walk to San Francisco Week 4: Klamath to Mendocino
I'm walking from Seattle to San Francisco. Check out the landing page for this trip here. Donate to facing homelessness here! Day 24 I spent most of the day getting to Crescent City to go to the doctor. The bus stop was an unlabeled bench where everyone who walked by would tell you the bus... Continue Reading →
Walk to San Francisco Week 3: Florence to Poison Ivy (Klamath)
I'm walking from Seattle to San Francisco. Check out the landing page for this trip here. Donate to facing homelessness here! Day 16 I left Florence early and walked through a bunch of the Oregon Dunes. The dunes themselves were pretty but often it was just woods and ATV rental shops, closed for the season.... Continue Reading →
Walk to San Francisco Week 1: Seattle to Portland
Here are my journal entries for the first several days of my walk to San Francisco, which you can read more about here. Day 1 I walked in the quiet snowy city from my partner's house in capitol hill to the southern tip of Vashon island. It was sunny for the first part of the... Continue Reading →
Walk to San Francisco!
I am hopefully walking to San Francisco starting Feb 10! I hate to promise things before I do them but I'll do my best to make this happen barring injury or serious safety concerns! This is a landing page for info and updates! I am walking partially to raise money for Facing Homelessness, a local... Continue Reading →
100 Peaks #16: Mailbox Peak, Community and the Hardest Earned Pineapples
If you're not from Seattle, the familiarity of the mailbox is probably lost on you. But when I first hiked it on a visit to Seattle, before the new, less steep trail even existed, it was so steep my sedentary college body felt overheated, and I laid on the floor for a few hours. The... Continue Reading →
Tears.
This is a compilation of stories about crying I coordinated for a small zine. The stories are from friends, people I met thru-hiking, climbing partners, and relatives and represent a broad range of experiences. I leave the zine in summit registers and at other locations for people to find, but I want to make the... Continue Reading →
Walking 36 Consecutive Hours Just to See What Happens
I have this weird habit of being uninterested in goals that other people have made. Maybe I'm just never going to be over my teenage rebel-without-a-cause mindset. But chances are, the more sought-after a goal is, the less interested I will be in achieving it. I try to get over this, because actually most experiences... Continue Reading →
Seattle to Anacortes
Day 0 Before I left work I stopped at the free table, where there was even more food than normal because of Thanksgiving. I grabbed a bag of grapes and some carrots and a large loaf of rosemary bread for my journey. I walked toward the shore, adjusting my backpack and trying to figure out... Continue Reading →
What It’s Like to Walk the Same Block 100 Times, and For a Lot of People to Know About It
Last Monday I had the interesting experience of doing an informal performance walking around a single city block 100 times (about 20 miles), and of it becoming more publicly visible than I anticipated. It was supposed to be a personal, ephemeral thing where I could immerse myself in something repetitive and reflect on it after,... Continue Reading →