Traveling Cargopants

A journey into the west, the self, and beyond

Camping and a homemade sweat lodge

| January 26, 2010

Went camping with my new friend Sandy out in a river canyon near Jamestown, about 20 minutes from Boulder. We drove out there with her couch surfer, Felicity (who is from New Zealand), and met two more of Sandy’s friends who were already at the campsite when we arrived. They had picked out a great [...]

Getting back to nature

| August 26, 2009

I’ve been spending a lot of time in the last couple of weeks looking at the night sky. Where I live in Northern New Mexico, there are really big skies, and we’re far away enough from city lights where you can see shining stars clearly at night. There was the Perseid meteor shower in July [...]

Preparations

| August 14, 2009

I’m finding that there are lots of things to do to prepare for this journey. I’ll be on the road for the next two months, so all my material possessions will be reduced to what can fit into a car — potentially less if I’m going to have friends come on portions of the journey [...]