Intro to the Pacific Crest Trail. Santa Rosa Island, 2016. Santa Cruz Island, Nov. This website is a living collection of my experiences, research, and ideas on backpacking as a woman, often solo. I hope it will inspire and help others out there to get up and get out, to live freely, yet safely, and to create the steady flow of building wonderful memories of the past and dreams for the future.

In search of healthy and fun meals to feed my family, with an eye toward sustainable living. Sunday, May 27, 2012. The garden is IN! Drizzly rainy today, but Liesl and I did finally get those potatoes planted! Sunday, May 6, 2012. For some strange reason, my family only likes green.

Sunday, July 28, 2013. When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. Friday, July 19, 2013. He said he had heard that both cubs were still roaming around. It made my toes tingle a little bit watching the video. A moose and lots of bison with their newborn calves.

Recipes and Reflections from a Wilderness Chef. Venison Pot Roast with Forty Cloves of Garlic. It was when I started shaking involuntarily that I realized I might have pushed myself to hard.

On our way west! Posted in Travel Updates. On September 7, 2014 by cjracer. Will be nice to hit the road with Katie for a few weeks. On April 12, 2014 by cjracer. Heavy rain the next few days. If anything good comes out of it, at this should clear the rest of the salt off the road. Posted in CJ Designs Events. If you have not .

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