A wise man once told me that I should never take my wife on a road trip, he also told me that he never goes on road trips with his wife anymore, so I started my first road trip with…
Tag: Outdoors
Too busy to write
“Did you take any pictures” my friend Yosef asked excitedly as I spoke to him about one of the most amazing rides I had ever done on a mountain bike. “Of course not, I didn’t want to stop and ruin…
It’s so hard to write when the weather is nice
For the past couple of months the weather has been unsettled, rain then sun, then cold, then who knows…Then God woke up to my pleas for nice weather during my daily shachris yechidus in my bedroom and brought forth beautiful…
I love Oregon
Just a warning: This is true stream of consciousness if you do not appreciate long winded out of order interludes that are full of romantic nostalgia stop reading now. A small sliver of sky can be seen ahead of me,…
Wondering and Wandering
I’m lying in my car, I’m wide awake, I just awoke and it’s pitch black, I step outside to pee, feel the cool gravel pebbles on my feet and look up at the stars. I say asher yatzar with my…
Backpacking Yosemite High Country
I feel like a cliché, I’m sitting on a composting toilet at 10,000 feet after a 15 mile hike reading Emerson. I have thought about, read snippets and been told to read Emerson for no less than 15 years, yet…
My latest backpacking adventure
I laughed suddenly, as I hiked briskly up the Pine Ridge Trail into the Ventanna wilderness, I have this habit recently up laughing like a wild man whenever I realize that I am finally living my dream. I can’t believe…
4 months in California and loving it
Everyone I have been speaking to on the phone lately has been asking me when I plan to move back to New York and just recently I tell them that as of now I could never imagine moving back east…
What I do on my off days
I love mountain biking. I rode 5 times this week so far and the Lord has blessed northern California with some amazing riding – all within 30 miles of my house.
Two days without phone or internet or chometz
I was on the internet for about 10 minutes after Yuntiff on Wednesday night, I immediately logged off and about 10 minutes ago I logged on and found a filled up email and facebook waiting for me. Yuntiff was a…
I know I haven’t written about the outdoors in a while…
The following is not satire nor is it funny, but many folks miss the fact that I rarely write anything about my own life, my blog used to be a bit more biographical, but then I decided to make it…
Brief summary of my road trip to Maine
Having already taken off three weeks in the beginning of summer to go to Spain and Israel I didn’t even want to ask about taking off for and end of summer road trip which seems like it has become minhag…
I will be in Maine for the next two weeks
So I will not be responding to emails, facebook messages, tweets or blogging as frequently as I normally do. That doesn’t mean I won’t show you all some love by pre-scheduling posts for the days I will be backpacking Katahdin…
Wanderlust Rant
Before I had two blogs, whenever I wrote something that had nothing humorous to it I would just post it on my more personal blog which is called Frum Outdoorsman, it is rarely updated but this was one of the…
Hashgacha prutus in Harriman State Park
This post will be posted on my Jewish outdoors blog as well. If you would like to add my outdoors blog to your blogroll I would appreciate it and obviously do the same. At about 6pm last evening I had…