Another gem! I'm glad you persevered and stubbornly found a way to put in. I always say the only real adventure is a misadventure
As usual, I love all of the insight you dig up under the ground of your experience. The reminder that the City is designed to control your movements, and is essentially a kind of prison or enclosure, is so pertinent as it's something very few consider as they go about moving through the world as intended. I had to jump a few fences just this week!
Christopher, what an absolutely incredible piece. I was pretty worried there about that water. I hope there were no nasties that flared up after having to trudge through it. Gorgeous writing as ever.
Thank you so much, Joanna! It means a great deal to me to hear that from you. I have been paddling a lot of weird water this summer and no mutations 🦠yet but it has been a sobering reminder of how sick our relationship is with the Earth’s waters.
I did cancel one paddle planned for the Tijuana River in San Diego, when I read an advisory that exposure to that water can cause hepatitis 😬
Our entire relationship to fresh water is so messed up. By bringing us right down to the water, you make us really feel this with all our senses. So beautifully evocative and sad, but you somehow make the fact that you are witnessing it sort of uplifting. Incredible.
Most brilliant way to write about 9/11 that I've seen all month. "the Statue of Liberty looked so luminescent you could almost believe the things it stood for are real." Almost.
Great pace. Super evocative. And some amazing lines!
"There was plenty of evidence of other mammals going off the path, and on it..."
"...with my mess of weird gear spread out before me like the crazy guy I kind of was."
"...the possibility that our proclivity for burying the evidence of the things we’ve done to this place can also be an opportunity to figure out how to start to heal it."
Wild river explorers got nothing on you Chris, great article!
Let’s make that happen!
Thanks, Tom! I need to get up to your part of the North
Another gem! I'm glad you persevered and stubbornly found a way to put in. I always say the only real adventure is a misadventure
As usual, I love all of the insight you dig up under the ground of your experience. The reminder that the City is designed to control your movements, and is essentially a kind of prison or enclosure, is so pertinent as it's something very few consider as they go about moving through the world as intended. I had to jump a few fences just this week!
Already looking forward to the next one
Thanks, Cameron! We need to go jump some fences together one of these days...🚶🏽♂️🚶🏽🐺
Christopher, what an absolutely incredible piece. I was pretty worried there about that water. I hope there were no nasties that flared up after having to trudge through it. Gorgeous writing as ever.
Thank you so much, Joanna! It means a great deal to me to hear that from you. I have been paddling a lot of weird water this summer and no mutations 🦠yet but it has been a sobering reminder of how sick our relationship is with the Earth’s waters.
I did cancel one paddle planned for the Tijuana River in San Diego, when I read an advisory that exposure to that water can cause hepatitis 😬
Our entire relationship to fresh water is so messed up. By bringing us right down to the water, you make us really feel this with all our senses. So beautifully evocative and sad, but you somehow make the fact that you are witnessing it sort of uplifting. Incredible.
Really enjoyed your adventure and the write up, all from the Mojave!
Thanks, James!
Most brilliant way to write about 9/11 that I've seen all month. "the Statue of Liberty looked so luminescent you could almost believe the things it stood for are real." Almost.
Great pace. Super evocative. And some amazing lines!
"There was plenty of evidence of other mammals going off the path, and on it..."
"...with my mess of weird gear spread out before me like the crazy guy I kind of was."
"...the possibility that our proclivity for burying the evidence of the things we’ve done to this place can also be an opportunity to figure out how to start to heal it."
Thanks, Adam!
Wonderful images - thank you!