Stoic Nomadic
I am currently attempting a human powered journey from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington to Key West, Florida. I will hike, paddle, and bike my way across 9 months and thousands of miles to connect the corners of the country.
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Walking North Macedonia (opens the original)
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Walking Montenegro (opens the original)
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Does it really count as a visit to a country if all I saw was the wilderness?That was the question I asked myself as I came into Montenegro, the third country on the Peaks of the Balkans trail. The trail is an 11-day loop through the Accursed Mountain range on the borderlands of Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro.We took a trail off to the side of the main route and went up to the mountain where the borders of these three countries meet. A concrete monument stood on the boundary. A quick walk aroun
Walking Kosovo (opens the original)
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Walking Albania (opens the original)
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I Became Less Interesting to Myself (opens the original)
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When I stopped making myself the center of every story, I began to see the riches and power God had poured into His creation of the Mississippi River.It was on the second day that I quietly admitted I had overestimated my ability. Mowgli, Dotti, and I attempted to paddle the entire length of the Mississippi River in the summer of 2024, and my realization came on the wet forest floor of a mosquito-infested Minnesota woodland. We were still an insurmountable 2,000+ miles north of the Gulf of Mexic
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