If you don't ask the question,
the answer is always no.
Dirt & Gardens
Moving through Life
Dirt & Gardens
45 years of growing things — and everything the garden teaches you about patience, loss, and what it means to build something that outlasts you.
From estate gardens to backyard sanctuaries, I've spent four decades with my hands in the soil. I'll share what actually works, what doesn't survive a real season, and why a garden is never just a garden — it's a philosophy.
Trails & Water
Moving through Life
Dirt & Gardens
Biking, kayaking, and the quiet Wisconsin places most people drive right past.
I've ridden rails-to-trails across the state and paddled more rivers than I've counted. These aren't highlight reels — they're honest guides to real routes, from someone who rides them at 71 and no interest in pretending it's always easy.
Trail guides, gear that
Biking, kayaking, and the quiet Wisconsin places most people drive right past.
I've ridden rails-to-trails across the state and paddled more rivers than I've counted. These aren't highlight reels — they're honest guides to real routes, from someone who rides them at 71 and no interest in pretending it's always easy.
Trail guides, gear that earns its place, and the occasional reminder that the second mile is always better than the first.
NoNáme VanLife
Moving through Life
Moving through Life
Meet NoNáme. A 2025 Ram ProMaster 3500 and the most honest van in the Midwest.
No $200,000 build. No influencer-grade kitchen. Just a sensible, budget-conscious setup that gets me to destination bike trails, quiet kayak launches, and the kind of out-of-the-way places you find on Harvest Host and Hipcamp but never see on Instagram.
I'll show
Meet NoNáme. A 2025 Ram ProMaster 3500 and the most honest van in the Midwest.
No $200,000 build. No influencer-grade kitchen. Just a sensible, budget-conscious setup that gets me to destination bike trails, quiet kayak launches, and the kind of out-of-the-way places you find on Harvest Host and Hipcamp but never see on Instagram.
I'll show you exactly how I set it up, what it cost, what I'd do differently, and every location worth pointing a van toward in Wisconsin and beyond.
Moving through Life
Moving through Life
Moving through Life
Grief, recovery, and the stubborn decision to keep moving when life gives you every reason to stop.
I lost my wife Cheryl in 2023 after 34 years together. I survived a widow-maker heart attack in October of 2025. And on May 4th I turn 71 with more trail miles ahead of me than behind me — at least that's the plan.
This is where I write about
Grief, recovery, and the stubborn decision to keep moving when life gives you every reason to stop.
I lost my wife Cheryl in 2023 after 34 years together. I survived a widow-maker heart attack in October of 2025. And on May 4th I turn 71 with more trail miles ahead of me than behind me — at least that's the plan.
This is where I write about the hard stuff. Staying in shape when your body has been through something. What grief actually looks like six months in, and two years in. The difference between slowing down and stopping — and why that difference is everything.
Motion is lotion for the body and soul. This is proof.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”