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Tag: Henry David Thoreau

‘Why’d you stop?’

In all the time we've been here, I couldn't recall having seen a vanity plate...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Country, Culture, Flashback, Food, Home, Liberty, Merica, Reason, RV, The Mountain, Travel, UTV October 5, 2022October 5, 2022

Tonic

Day upon day arrives with promise -- but also with an obligation to not squander the gift of another sunrise...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Country, Culture, Flashback, Food, Home, Liberty, Merica, Reason, RV, The Mountain, Travel, UTV October 2, 2022October 2, 2022

The pocket dump

What a person carries every day says a lot about their life, I think...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Constitution, Culture, First Amendment, Home, Liberty, Merica, Politics, Reason, RV, The Mountain, Travel March 30, 2022March 31, 2022

Of course you can’t. But if you could…

It seems to me that we spend a lot of time talking ourselves out of what we want to do...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Constitution, Country, Culture, First Amendment, Food, Home, Liberty, Merica, Music, Politics, Reason, RV, Second Amendment, The Mountain, Travel, UTV 2 Comments February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

‘Doubly difficult’

I've spent more time outdoors in the last year than in the previous three decades combined...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Country, Culture, Home, Jeep, Liberty, Merica, RV, The Mountain, Travel, UTV February 12, 2022

Our seventh First

When Deb and I set out on the First of May we intended to be on this journey for a year. What we might do after that is something we wouldn't discuss for...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Culture, Liberty, Merica, RV, Travel November 1, 2021November 2, 2021

‘The tonic of wildness’

"We need the tonic of wildness -- to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk..."

Ubi Libertas Camping, Culture, Food, Jeep, Liberty, Merica, RV, Travel October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

Yellow stone

If you've seen picture-postcard images of Yellowstone National Park, you know how it got its name -- or you think you know...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Culture, Jeep, Liberty, Merica, RV, Travel, Truck 1 Comment September 20, 2021September 18, 2022

Day 329: Jammin’

This is Day 329 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve. Deb and I are okie-dokie. And we’re gettin’ more snow. By the time it’s all over, this round could bring the most we’ve seen...

Ubi Libertas Camping, Constitution, Country, Culture, First Amendment, Flashback, Food, Liberty, Merica, Music, Pandemic, Politics, Protest, Sports, Truck 1 Comment February 15, 2021February 15, 2021

Flashback: ‘Any truth is better than make-believe’ (1854)

Some years ago I began referring to Henry David Thoreau's Walden: Life In The Woods, published in 1854, as "my old testament." That's still so -- I return to it often, in devotional fashion, and its pages continue to yield wisdom.

Ubi Libertas Culture, Flashback, Liberty 3 Comments January 25, 2021

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