In March 2019, one month before beginning a thru-hiking on the Appalachian Trial, I took time to write down my thoughts… Here they are… Excitement. Anticipation. Nervousness. Confusion. Stress. My mid-April start for thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail seemed forever away. This date that was looming over my remaining time in Atlanta was so distant. I […]
The following was written in August 2018. *** This weekend I am flying to Detroit from Atlanta to visit my college roommate. Once a year, I go to see her and she comes to me once a year. I had the window seat on my flight, which is my favorite! I get to control the […]
I am very happy to announce that Faraway Horizons has been nominated for its second award since go-live this past August! This honor is called the Sunshine Blogger Award. It is a blogger-to-blogger award that recognizes up-and-coming blogs that share positivity and spreads sunshine to its readers! (Read about Faraway Horizons’ first award nomination here.) […]
I am excited to announce that Faraway Horizons has been nominated for the 2018 Liebster Award! This is a huge honor! The Liebster Award is used to discover and recognize up-and-coming blogs that have a new, fresh perspective on the content that they create. Not only is this Faraway Horizons’ first nomination, but it is […]
The Wonderland Trail is a big, 93 mile loop hike around Mt. Rainer in Washington. My friend and I decided that walking in a big circle for 10+ days sounded like a good way to spend a vacation. Due to the popularity of this hike, the National Park Service assigns permits for each group planning […]
I’ve been indoor rock climbing on and off for the past few years. Mostly off. I don’t have any new equipment. My shoes, harness, and chalk bag are second-hand from friends that weren’t using the gear. The hardest route I’ve ever climbed to-date was a 5.11 (on a scale of 5.1 – 5.15). I can’t […]
“When in Vegas…” That’s the phrase I think of when something crazy is about to go down. Typically, it’s something that most people, you know, the normal ones, wouldn’t necessarily do. It might even be considered the Hail Mary of bad decisions. But when this phrase skips across my mind or someone else utters these […]
William Shakespeare once wrote in his famous play Romeo and Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The only reason we call a rose a ‘rose’ is because someone over the course of history decided to assign a specific word to a specific thing. Curse words are similar. They are only […]
Come on an adventure with me. There it is… We finally made it to the tree line. An increasingly dense pine wilderness lies behind us. Ahead of us, the trail winds through a wilderness of brownish-gray boulders… to higher and higher elevations where plants can no longer survive. What awaits us across the boulder field […]
Scientifically (and very simply stated), rain is the part of the water cycle where evaporated H2O forms droplets that become too heavy for the clouds to hold, so the droplets are released and fall to the ground. Physically, rain is something that can ruin your hair, your shoes, and your electronics, but it also helps […]