DON’T BE AFRAID TO SCARE YOURSELF (Utah ~ Zambezi River ~ Puerto Rico)
My wilderness survival course in the southern Utah desert included three days completely alone in a red canyon so beautiful it made other parts of the earth seem lonely. Mother Nature’s sandbox dyed me red-orange. My senses felt alive. I smelled the sage breeze, heard the wisp of darting vultures, saw the dry earth crackling under my feet, and felt the precious seconds ticking. This desert, like most, can experience 60-degree temperature swings in […]