The Words

The thought of hiking deep into the desert’s backcountry seemed magical at first, but soon enough I came to understand why so few trekked this far out. Just imagine taking on a hike where the mountains you climb have beach sands dumped across them as far as you could see....

It’s custom to take on a trail name once you’ve earned your stripes as a thru hiker. The birthing of my name was a simple affair. You’re from Boston? Yes. Your favorite cocktail is a Moscow mule? Yes. Well there it is, you're the Boston Mule.....

Why would one travel three hours and forty five minutes to hike five miles? Especially when there are plenty of perfectly fine hikes local to Santa Fe. Well, that’s the exact driving distance from Santa Fe, New Mexico to White Sands...

But Mama aint always right….. It’s not that easy to just pop into civilization when you’re in the midst of hiking one of the longest trails in America. Sometimes you just need to stick your thumb out at a road crossing...

  The Sun was lowering over my shoulder, orange reddish hue reflecting in my rearview mirror, while the city lights appeared in the far distance. Six and half days after leaving my home of Cambridge MA., I was now entering what I...

 Maybe one of the reasons, as I grew into hiking, that I never found myself consumed with fear of being alone in the deep dark unknown of the wilderness is that I never gave much thought to ghosts. It’s not...

Let's Get Silly For a Moment Shall We….  I’ve been getting too serious about all this mental health talk lately. Don’t get me wrong, it’s important, but along with all this soul searching, hiking has provided its fair share of “shits...

This crazy journey of mine leads to a lot of "What if's".... Allow me to explain.....

These are the 2 first blog entries I wrote just before I started my AT thru hike back in 2015. In four days it will be the anniversary of my first day stepping off of Springer Mountain in Georgia and starting...

My day usually consists of crossing two or three things off a much larger list of tasks I need to do to keep moving forward with life goals. But here’s the hitch: I always have a feeling at the end of...