Community Site: Initiated

Hey guys! The community page is up, go check it out. So far I have three brave souls, forcefully, I mean willingly sending me their hikes. Go follow their progress Here, or via the link on the right-hand side of the page above the sweet outdated picture of my boots. And more importantly, join in. Just hike a mile, or two, or go across the country 5 times like Forest Gump. Either way get out and do it, and maybe you'll get a sweet sweet pair of free boots out of it. And who knows, if enough people get involved I might even sweeten the pot.
In other news, I entered a contest to go on a dream backpacking trip courtesy of the cool dudes over at Backpacker magazine. If you really want to watch me humiliate myself in front of the camera, the video is located here, but I'm sure no one in interested in that. Wish me luck. Oh and if I were to end up winning, I would be going back to Zion N. P. and hiking the Trans-Zion Trek, which would be completely awesome, but that goes without saying. I would also get to bring someone from the Wanderlust community along with me. Now who have I suckered into hiking the most with me over the past 2 years.........?
And finally some trip updates: It's confirmed, so far, that this year the boots will be hiking in Texas, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Thanks for following along and cheers!

Ducks, stolen strait from my Instagram.

Plum Island during a snow storm.

Built to Roam

I wish I could explain to you the sheer ridiculous amount of travel ideas and plans that pop into my head every day. It easily breaks the single digits, in fact just today I decided I was going to Quebec City, Utah, Colorado, and San Francisco, and that was just before lunch. I can't stop thinking about going new places, I feel as though every day I'm missing out on something, like there is somewhere I'm suppose to be, some plan I have forgot about. It drives me crazy sometimes, and watching 2 hours of GoPro videos doesn't help much. How do those people do it?! How do three dudes with rockin' beards buy a van for $800 and run that shit into the ground traveling cross country doing every single awesome activity you could possibly imagine?! My sensible side thinks, did they register that van and make sure it had the proper insurances and did they plan this trip out first? But my Wanderlust side is like, fuck yeah! I want that van, and a goddamn beard just like that, lets go to New Mexico TONIGHT! WHOOO! So why can't we? Oh yeah that's right, life. Bills, and Cleaning the bathroom, and fiscal years and shit. Bummer. But there is hope for us. While we can't just gallivant around the country 24/7 like our parents own Google, we can go on vacations. That word just brings all the thoughts of Utah and Colorado and Quebec and San Fransisco back into my head, and I'm excited all over again. I can do all these things, and have a permanent address AND my hair won't smell like old fish sticks from living out of a van. So I guess what I'm getting at is, vacations are the key, they are completely, totally, and utterly awesome. So don't waste them. Seriously. Work is always going to be busy, and you're always going to owe money to something. Just plan ahead, and go, wherever it is you wanna go. Wanna see the largest ball of twine and the biggest bouncy ball? GO! Wanna go to Denali National Park and sleep next to huge grizzly bears and glaciers? Go dammit! Because I guarantee in 40 years you're not going to remember what project you worked on or who you had to make a sales call to in 2013, but you will remember when you watched a solar eclipse in Zion National Park or climbed a cliff face in a rain storm. So this year go wherever it is you've been thinking about going, book the plane tickets, cause then you have to go. And oh yeah, take me with you. I know stuff and I'll probably do something stupid at one point and you'll laugh, it will be worth it.
Also, I have gone on a few trips lately and there has been some mileage. I went up to the White Mountains a few weeks ago with my Dad and Brother for some male bonding. We went cross country skiing and explored the Kangamangus highway a bit. It was a lot of fun. I also got a chance to go on a hike on Super Bowl Sunday to Agassiz Rock. It was relatively short but absolutely worth checking out if you have a bit of free time one day. The loop is only roughly one mile but has a few glacial erratics and a semi-view of Gloucester to see. It was during this hike that I thought of attaching the GoPro a tree and then tipping it over.....needs perfecting but footage is sure to follow. Also it was snowing which made this place even better, usually the truth for hiking in New England in the winter.
Don't forget to send me your mileage when you guys go hiking! I really do have a free pair of boots to give out and I want to know where you all have hiked.  Do it!
Finally, there is going to be some changes here at Wanderlust in the next few months, adding some new features so stay tuned. Cheers!

Mileage: 1.5 miles

Fish Eye Guys.

Cross country Skiing.

Not all of it was this flat. It's fun, seriously.

Human Dead Fall trap.