Back in 2016, I had to buy a new vehicle. My two requirements for my car were: 1. It had to have a GPS and 2. It had to have a CD player. The GPS was for practical reasons, and the CD player is because I am one of the last humans on earth who ...

It’s impossible to live out in the woods for six months and not change in some way. When you come home after a journey like the Appalachian Trail, you have to readjust to the “normal” world. Everything feels bigger, faster, stranger. There are things that you forgot existed and things that you will forever be ...

When I tell someone that I hiked the Appalachian Trail, their face becomes more and more shocked. They are surprised when I tell them I hiked it all at once, that it took six months, and that I hiked it alone. But one of the more unique experiences I encountered was hitch-hiking. The fact that ...