Dispatch #54 - 362,547 Steps Across New York City
Notes and nostalgia from the Big Apple. From hitchhiking to engagements to anniversaries.
Forgotten Lands Project
Written and visual dispatches from our least understood, least protected, and largely unknown public lands managed by the BLM. Part guidebook, inspiration, and travelogue.
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Dispatch #53 - Some Unfiltered and Scattered Notes on My Book’s First Anniversary
The sliding doors moment of my life. Journal entries from 2022. Process.
BONUS: National Monument Reductions
Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante get slashed. The Antiquities Act is in the crosshairs. Plus, Aldo Leopold.
Dispatch #52 - My Daughter's First Backpacking Trip, Part 2
On fatherhood, red flag weather warnings, and making last second decisions with a 5th grader.
Dispatch #51 - My Daughter's First Backpacking Trip, Part 1
The Warner Mountains, the edge of the Great Basin, and the ridgeline that divides two watersheds.
Dispatch #50 - Books, books, books
My 2026 reading so far, plus a few lists of my all-time favorite books.
Dispatch #49 - Soldier Meadows Road, Nevada
Wandered across the Great Basin last week. On breathing room, darkness, and the spaces between things.
Dispatch #48 - BLM Campgrounds in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts
7 Campgrounds to bookmark for next season. All first come, first serve. Roughly the same price as a gallon of gas.
Dispatch #47 - Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
At the edge of desert season. Plus my first peninsular bighorn sheep sighting.
BONUS: My Feature Story on Nomads
A quick note here — after three months of reporting, two camping trips into the desert, and dozens of interviews, my feature on nomads living on public lands was published this week.