A round-trip flight from Portland, ME to Ushuaua, Argentia costs about $1,500-$2,000. Hotels there are not expensive ($50-150 per night). Rental cars are expensive (about $100/day) – but there aren’t that many roads to drive on. I expect I could be there for a week of hiking and exploration for $3-4k, and 6 total vacation-days.… Read More To Ushuaia
In what scientists are calling “UNPARDONABLY MIDDLE-AGED,” I wrote a 2,400-word essay on the subject of “Should I buy an Electric SUV.” So if you’re reading this – don’t. Here goes! MY VEHICULAR USAGE CASES WINTER ~95% of driving is local (<20mi). There’s the occasional trip to the Bostonlands (90mi). That’s really about it. If… Read More Car Talk
Living out of a tent is easy – until it’s not. Well, it’s easy for me. I am a thirtysomething cishet white man who speaks English with an Only-Speaks-English accent. I own a car. I have a few bucks in my pocket. I work remotely – have laptop, will lawyer. (Try to find me something… Read More FUTUREPROOFING
In my ‘umble, these are the most challenging hikes in the state of Maine – listed in descending order of difficulty. Some great intermediate hikes are: …parentheses indicate hikes I haven’t done – at least not as ascents. No stealing valor here!
California just announced that it would phase out the sale of new gas-powered street cars by 2035. The Volkswagen Group has set a similar schedule for itself. Ford has moved development of internal combustion engines to a “Legacy” department. Will ICE soon be a thing of the past? Most people think yes. But I think… Read More THE REVS WILL HANG
From March of 2018 through Christmas of 2019, I lived out of a backpack. Thruhiking is weird and wonderful – big fan. Came 2020 and thruhiking wasn’t really on the table. For three months I lived out of my car. I had nothing to do but hike mountain trails and drive mountain roads… and avoid… Read More VANNISH BOY
Next year it will be 30 years since Myst was released. It has been 25 years since Riven – and 25 years without Riven getting the sequel it deserves. It’s not surprising. The first Myst was a little game. You were in a little world made up of littler worlds. You solved little discrete puzzles.… Read More D’NI
BACKGROUND I was between jobs when COVID came. For months I could not find work of any sort. I went up to the Maine mountains to do some hiking. The world was ending, I lived out of my car, and it was wonderful. When I’d hiked all the mountains in Maine – most a few… Read More NO SPACESHIP
Over the course of six seasons and a few dozen murders, The Sopranos introduced a nation to the idea that television can be literature. It also introduced the idea that literature can have ambiguity. Which, being Americans, we fucking hated. I’m referring to the ending of the series. Most people didn’t get it. A decade… Read More SOPRANOS (CUT TO BLACK)
When he was a sprightly young lad of 58, Goethe wrote his Faust. The titular fellow is a man of a certain age and station. He has tried to find meaning in life through all the regular routes, studying religion and science and the humanities. He has come up short in the Meaning department. So… Read More FAUST/MUNGER
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