Going Alone

My daughter has begun to produce art for my book Going Alone. She came with me to the desert recently to experience firsthand the...

My daughter Emily joined me on this trip after I hired her to draw a map and various illustrations for use with the Going Alone and The...

While Emily works to enliven the wastes below the bridge, I relate the final chapter of Going Alone, which both acknowledges and...

My daughter joins me at Siberia to learn about the ruins and guess at the stories of the lives which were once lived at this place and...

En route to Siberia ghost town, I’ve stopped for shelter within the skeletal remains of a Route 66 gas station. The wind today is hard...

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...

This video always marks the start of every new adventure in the California desert. My departure from the gas and watering station at...

I encountered this desert wildfire two weeks back while en route to Siberia ghost town. The fire was moving fast across the desert scrub,...

This is my May, 2020 book reading of Going Alone. For this month, I chose to read select portions of the chapter titled The Anxiety Hike,...

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

Venturing too far and too long into the desert during midday after the Desert Killer has returned is something I know better than to do,...

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...