Nature is a wild mystery; I’ve also come to experience it as a complex, emotional, and benevolent energy. People are iterations of this same energy.

How to stay warm when the weather is cool.

I’ve biked and hiked thousands of miles with a tiny twig stove. I love cooking on fire!

I’ve lived in the yard long enough for the seasons to change. Also, opossums learned to wash my dishes.

My mom got sick this year. In April I drove to my parents’ house, set up my tent in the backyard, and started caring for her full time.

I spent a year house-sitting across the US. This is how the adventure unfolded.

Empathy is a great skill for building friendships; it's also a powerful tool for deescalating aggression and exiting dicey situations.

One of the best parts of any long bike trip is getting to meet all the animals. Usually these animals love us because they want to eat us. But every now and then, they really just want to be friends and snuggle. (Or at least that’s what I tell myself when I’m being chased.)

This is my gear list for an April trip on singletrack, gravel, and pavement in western Michigan.

A reflection and a challenge.

My complete gear list and route description.

In 2018 I pedaled 3700 miles around eastern Canada and the US, in search of the wild reindeer. “When hope is lost, you can create it. Life is too short to let anyone else own your truth. And you can break and still be unbreakable.”

Live-culture, raw, vegan, and superbly delicious.

When life gives you lemons, the adventure begins.

An adventure “Go-Bag” can help you exit quickly in the face of an emergency; it can also help you exit quickly in the face of normalcy.

I boxed up my things. I gave away my mattress and got rid of my car. I said goodbye to my boyfriend and to Basil. Then I gathered up my bike and my camping gear and bought a one-way ticket to Alaska.

Home is a film about Sarah Outen’s four-and-a-half human-powered circumnavigation of the world. But it’s not the story you think it will be.

Sure, I had giardia, altitude sickness, and no clear direction in life. But I looked AWESOME.

After I’ve put up the tent, filtered the water, gathered the wood, and finally coaxed new flames into being, I get to sit back and feel the unique warmth and peace that only a fire can bring. It wins me over, every time.

I biked thousands of miles around the world with simple, cheap, homemade bike gear. You can too!