How to enjoy a night in the wilderness, in 7 easy steps
(1) Create a packing list
(2) Pick a scenic spot
(3) Set up tent before nightfall (and hope the waters don’t rise)
(4) Listen to the nighttime bestiary come alive and supplement with scary stories
(5) Lay down, look up, and let your handheld astronomy app tell you what you’re observing
(6) Sleep well, wake up in the mist
(7) Celebrate!
Mission Elapsed Time: 20:00:21:06:42:40
Recently this blog (and my Flickr account) turned 20 years old, forever in Internet years. I went back through it all, retracing digital footprints made on what feels like a different planet. Here are some highlights.
The Ampcamper
How I hauled myself, two teens, an 80 lb dog, and a whole load of crap 4000+ miles across six states in twenty days using an electric vehicle. And survived to tell the tale.
The Terror Tourist
A roughly monthly exploration of places in horror fiction — real or imagined, geographical or psychological — culled from The Heavy Leather Horror Show.
Subscribe to the podcast or the email newsletter or just read through the archives posted here.
