My hand swells up to twice its size, oozing clear liquid, and i've never felt better. About four days prior, I was traversing the notable...

Kauai, the oldest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, is known as the “Garden Isle.” Its lush tropical rainforests and mystical mountains...

A mother and daughter sit at a countertop in a bar facing out to the quiet street. They are drinking oat milk hot chocolates. It's 9pm in...

I think that the traffic is because of a bison, but as I round the corner I see a woman laying in the street with a pool of blood around...

Approximately 5 minutes after leaving the hotel in Costa Rica, I fall into a gutter... hard. Costa Rica's streets are lined with gutters...

A red shape flashes in the corner of my vision. I turn away from my students, and see a red fox lightly pitter pattering across fresh...

Some of us are super confident venturing out into the wild on our own, and others not so much. People may be dissuaded from going hiking...

On the drive back from the airport in Boston I stare out the window at all the trees zipping by out the window. On long car rides I used...

I planned to visit five national parks this week, and spend every night under the stars. I start to rethink this decision on the second...

I take deep breaths, half because of physical exertion, and half because the air is dense with the musky-sweet smell of fallen leaves. So...

It can be easy to be healthy while living in an affluent urban area where you are a stone's throw away from a juice bar and an equinox...

Never had I been forced to consider the worth of my life before my last solo-hike. I am hiking a trail called Upper Layout, a modest hike...

There is a Mott's fruit snack wrapper floating sadly in a bubbling thermal pool. I find myself staring at it longer than the geyser...

My nose is bleeding constantly, and it is getting harder to suck in oxygen through the scabs constantly forming in my nostrils. Now that...

As a young adult, I am on the move quite a bit. Everywhere my feet land, I am unsure if I will make this plot of earth my home, or if I...

Whenever I am at a family gathering and I reveal my plans for my next hike/travel, I am met with a mixture of concern, confusion, and...

Ever since I was a kid, my parents have always taken me with them on every trip they went on. I guess that’s a perk of being an only...