Author: Mark (SlowBro) Hurd

Imagine that you, by some bizarre accident, set up your camp at the side of an active runway at a big international airport. As you lay there in your sleeping bag try to get...

Had a bit of a fitful night and got up at 5:30AM. Grabbed breakfast at the motel which was quite good, eggs, sausage, waffles, the whole nine yards. Then it was back to my...

2:45AM- Awaiting Uber to airport. I’m taking a 5:30 flight to Phoenix where I have a tight connection to Dallas. Then, in Big D, a three hour wait for my flight into Fort Smith,...

4:45AM: I was climbing the hill in a driving rain, hoping that my pack cover was doing its job. The temperature was hovering in the mid 30s as I zipped my rain jacket up...

I’m just back from a trip down to Southern California to visit my sister and brother and their spouses. Nancy and I had a great time and it was good to see them all....

This post is a bit earlier than I expected. But, it turns out that I have a scheduling conflict that interferes with the timing of my Ouachita Trail trek, forcing me to move the...