Going Alone

I'd left Siberia ghost town as the sun went down, departing for a four-hour motorcycle ride into the desert night; with hot wind at my...

On a windy, blustery day alone in the East Mojave Desert I stood and walked and talked and remembered and recounted and critiqued again...

Every chapter I write in the desert has a character and distance about it which I could not capture anywhere but within a void. There is...

The Path of Wildness is easy to find... It is the course of a stream, and a beast's track through the woods; leaves blown in the wind,...

As a student, my daughter sometimes asks me to make her "camp coffee" which she appreciates for being extra strong and a good pick me up...

The "Desert Fathers" once famously haunted the deserts east of Egypt, where they pursued solitude and clarity while seeking oneness and a...

An impressive thing about deserts is the honesty they demand of our age, our health, and our constitution. The desert will not...

I'd made the foolish mistake of venturing into the desert further than I should on a day when I should not and past the point I should...

In addition to writing chapters for the new book, I also use my time at Siberia ghost town to record audio chapters for my last book....

I'm not sure if it's reassuring or not to discover sightings by others of The Great Indifference in the landscapes of their exploration....

Every time I go to Siberia I can sense my diminishing capacity to withstand the world as it is and always will be; harsh, raw, deadly and...

While at Siberia this past weekend I discovered I'd had a visitor. Someone had actually come, and had made their way from the ghost town...

My perennial desert nighttime destination is the lost and deserted desert mining camp called "Campo #1". Like Siberia ghost town, I lay...

My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone. Be safe... But not too safe. #Adventure #desert...

Work on the new book is progressing slower now, since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of so much of our society's day-to-day...

The arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...

I might go out Into life, To see what is there, And then return in peace. Or, I might stay, Seeking peace; Wondering always... What there...

I saw this young man alone in the desert some miles outside Palm Springs, California. He'd made a life for himself on his own terms -...

“For whilst anger is the foe of reason, it nevertheless does not arise in any place where reason cannot dwell.” -Seneca Today I...

During a discussion with a coworker, I realized I had said to much. It would have been better if I had left off speaking after my point...