Meeting a ranger of the Cowboy State

And assorted megafauna scat

Dear readers!

This fun episode originally appeared as a “subscribers only” post back when I was doing that more than a year ago. If you’re new or free, you will have missed it!

I had such a tough time deciding how to provide “special content” for paying subscribers that last fall I decided to make ALL posts free the first week, and then paywall back episodes.

This has been great, because everyone who likes the newsletter can read it, and those who REALLY like it, can subscribe and read the back issues and catch our whole journey.

I can’t tell you how much this simple adjustment has reduced my stress in managing the content of the newsletter. The very best and edited and improved essays will also be part of my third memoir PASSAGES, coming out sometime in 2024.

ANYWAY, that brings us to this post~ ! Read and enjoy! And don’t forget there are LOTS more of these to review, going all the way back to 2020, if you sign up as a paid subscriber!

By day two camping in the Bighorn Mountains of …