My parents gave me Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York book for a holiday gift, and I spent the next hour flipping from cover to cover, in awe and admiration of Stanton’s work, and the depth of humanity he’d been able to experience ...
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“Oh yeah,” Lee said from his side of the table at the Two Sisters Cafe in Idaho Springs, “you know how many calories you burn just trying to stay warm?” I took huge guiltless bites of a breakfast burrito. The question was purely ...
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With the help of a bunch of great friends, I spent the last couple years putting together a book called The New American Road Trip Mixtape. It’s a story about living on the road, the search for the American Dream, and our evolving ...
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About 2 ½ years ago after a breakup, I moved out of my apartment in Denver and into my car, thinking I would go back after five weeks. The week after Labor Day, I ended up in Pinedale, Wyoming, with two options: I ...
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It is a fact that if you are reading this, there is a 75 percent chance you have touched at least one rock in the past 21 days. With your hands, feet, bicycle tires, you have interacted with rocks in some manner. One ...
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It’s getting late on a weeknight as you sit in the dark in front of a glowing computer screen, watching. Glazed over, you mindlessly click click click and scroll through pages. You like to watch. A couple minutes here, a couple minutes there, ...
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I hopped over a stream crossing the Bright Angel Trail, taking a big step from one rock to the next, then turned around to wait for my mom to cross. She carefully stepped next to the stream, not exactly sure what to do. ...
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Hey, do you like camping and backpacking with your friends? Of course you do. So obviously you’d like to be invited on lots of trips. How do you get invited on lots of trips? You learn how to be a good tentmate, and ...
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I watched Fight Club the other night for the first time in over a decade, out of curiosity if it would still seem as important as it did when I first watched the charismatic Tyler Durden come on screen and announce the rule ...
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