These days, smartphones and travel go hand in hand, just as cameras and travel have for years. Now that smartphones have some pretty decent cameras built in, travelers are ditching their SLRs and Point & Shoots to just carry the phone. While I don’t think that’s a great idea — smartphones still can’t, and probably never will — match the [...]

Wishing all my American friends a Happy Thanksgiving. Take a moment today to remember all the wonderful things you have in your life and appreciate them. Then have some turkey, take a nap, then head outside for a hike! Enjoy your day! We’ll be back tomorrow with more PTV fun.

Back in August of this year, Hokie & his lady Kelsey picked up and moved from Maine to California. You know I love road trips, so I made sure he let me repost his trip. Here it is, in tasty blog morsels. Enjoy! What follows is a quick daily journal of the happenings during a five day road trip across [...]

I love New York. I really do. San Francisco’s cool, London’s hip (too hip for this blue collar boy), Tokyo’s cutting edge. But New York is raw and emotional, and I love that city so much. Yes, I moved away to Maine last year to get away from the hubub of city life, and I haven’t been back to NYC [...]

I’m not huge into ultralight anything. My current backpacking stove, the MSR Whisperlite International, is a beast, but it gets the job done. As I’m thinking about taking day long and multi-day long fly fishing trips, weight starts to become an issue. When the main point of my trip is to simply hike a trail, I’m not so concerned about [...]

There are millions of places on this planet where you have never been. Think about that for a second. Of all the places you have been in your life, there exist places you have never and will never experience. Don’t think too hard on that, because if you love to travel like I do, it will probably depress the hell [...]

I know, I owe you a bunch of posts. In fact, I have about 24 drafts just waiting for my inspiration. It’s been pretty busy lately, and I promise you, I’m not slacking. I’ve barely been able to get outside! Alas, dear readers, job and girlfriend come before blog. I’ll be back to posting regularly soon enough, and I’ve got [...]

This past weekend, I saw 65 and sunny, sub-30 and frosty, rainy, windy, and foggy. In Maine in the fall, schizophrenic weather is par for the course. Layering is essential in order to cope with the ever changing meteorological moods of our state, but it’s also a delicate process. In order to avoid the dreaded Ralphie Syndrome (and any possibly [...]

When we both lived in Portland, it took several months for Hokie and I to realize that we lived in the same building. In fact, we didn’t realize it until one day on Twitter, we had been talking about beer and where we lived. Somehow, Hokie deduced that we were neighbors. From this, a friendship in beer was born. Unfortunately [...]

I got an email the other day letting me know that Russ & Laura from The Path Less Pedaled will be interviewed by Elise from Bike Touring Bliss. This….will be awesome. You need to check it out. The interview goes live TONIGHT! Tune in to Bike Touring Bliss at 9PM Eastern. You can even call in to join the discussion [...]