Going Alone

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...

Open desert mid-adventure review of my Outdoor Research Helium Bivy. I've had this Bivy for a few years now and it's become my go-to...

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

My anxiety rises as I walk alone though the dark desert more than a mile from Siberia and on my way into the Deep Water Wilderness....

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...

I discovered a fellow desert ghost town ghost today in a woman living alone in the deserted railroad community of Cisco, Utah. I can...

A long walk alone into the dark desert with no companion, no guide, no certainty and no companions. My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn...

Several miles into the desert at night I've found the remnants and memory of a long past desert mining adventure. What ever did this man hav

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 -...

Every weekday evening - during this strange life and temporary life I now live away from my family - I typically have dinner alone at a...

Every time I see a twenty-something at my place of employment I want to ask them sincerely, "why the hell are you here??" The decade of...

Looking back on the route so far, through the tangled weeds and forgotten and neglected spaces; I’ll remember fondly that I’d walked...

I previously imagined that the risk of avoiding risk was shallow on the domestic side, and deep on the personal side; that those who...

We live best When we return from the cold And choose the inward path of warmth A life of now And a life of here And a life with others...

Exploring the livelihood and consequence of living with an awareness that free will may be a quite compelling illusion.

Sometimes the best benefit of change is what we lose rather than what we gain.

November 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I sometimes - often, in fact - indulge a little too much. The temptation is so innocent a thing...just...

October 21, 2019 Dear Eric, The old adage of "better to burn out than to fade away" comes to mind when I think of your short life. You...

October 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I've an opportunity to exercise what is perhaps my earliest principle - The Path of Wildness: The Path of...