At long last, my years-long dream of exploring and sleeping in the wilderness comes to pass. At this point in my nomadic journey, I’d spent a whole month (March 2025) on the road…yet I felt like I didn’t have much to show for it in terms of the kinds of experiences (and let’s face it, photographs!) you can only get when you truly live as a cross-country nomad. For the most part I’d stayed near major urban centers in Oregon & Washington, and while I’d enjoyed a fair degree of natur...