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Mileposts--Calling Home
"I think all of us -- dad, me, my brother -- recognized a window of opportunity in which our flexibility as freelancers overlapped with dad's entranc…
10 years ago
Start Saying Yes
"Over two weeks I went from pretty 'fine'--I have to say 'fine' with air quotes and an eye roll because it's that kind of fine--so, I went from 'fine…
10 years ago
Mileposts--The Grit to Make it Happen
"If you go on some really big, really ambitious trip or you have some enormous goal, if you look at the big picture all the time, it's too intimidati…
10 years, 1 month ago
The Suffer Vest
"I'm not what you'd call a 'runner.' I prefer it to getting fat, but not by a lot," writes Brendan Leonard. "The most I'd run in the past fews years …
10 years, 1 month ago
The Ultimate Weekend Warrior
Jim Herson and Anne Smith live in the Bay Area. They're in their fifties. Jim has worked the same computer science job since he graduated college in …
10 years, 2 months ago
Little Explorers Club
"Tommy grew up in Estes, but you notice that so many families and so many kids just don't go into the the National Park," says Becca Caldwell. While …
10 years, 2 months ago
Live From 5Point Vol. 9
Before Semi-Rad.com, Brendan Leonard wrote a Short for The Dirtbag Diaries called Sixty Meters to Anywhere. He recently published a book with the sam…
10 years, 2 months ago
Green Light
Looking west from Seattle, the skyline of Olympic National Park is defined by the notched peak of The Brothers. "I see it stuck in traffic. I see it …
10 years, 3 months ago
The Shorts--I Poo, A Love Story
"My new husband, Bix, consulted the map and asked if I thought we'd make it to Bowknot Bend that day. Lots of honeymooners probably have similar conv…
10 years, 3 months ago
Trespassers
"You have to imagine that you're on the frozen Arctic Ocean. You're six miles from shore, you can't really tell where the ocean stops and the white s…
10 years, 4 months ago