Going Alone

I’m a little disappointed that I won’t be living at the edge of the Salton Sea in the middle of summer. Maybe I’ll ask AI to write it up?

The principle of The Pirate Ride suggests that free will is an illusion created by our seeming sense of the options which life presents...

En route to Siberia ghost town, I’ve stopped for shelter within the skeletal remains of a Route 66 gas station. The wind today is hard...

This is my May, 2020 book reading of Going Alone. For this month, I chose to read select portions of the chapter titled The Anxiety Hike,...

An impressive thing about deserts is the honesty they demand of our age, our health, and our constitution. The desert will not...

Venturing too far and too long into the desert during midday after the Desert Killer has returned is something I know better than to do,...

I'd made the foolish mistake of venturing into the desert further than I should on a day when I should not and past the point I should...

In addition to writing chapters for the new book, I also use my time at Siberia ghost town to record audio chapters for my last book....

I'm not sure if it's reassuring or not to discover sightings by others of The Great Indifference in the landscapes of their exploration....

Every time I go to Siberia I can sense my diminishing capacity to withstand the world as it is and always will be; harsh, raw, deadly and...

While at Siberia this past weekend I discovered I'd had a visitor. Someone had actually come, and had made their way from the ghost town...

Open desert mid-adventure review of my Outdoor Research Helium Bivy. I've had this Bivy for a few years now and it's become my go-to...

My perennial desert nighttime destination is the lost and deserted desert mining camp called "Campo #1". Like Siberia ghost town, I lay...

My anxiety rises as I walk alone though the dark desert more than a mile from Siberia and on my way into the Deep Water Wilderness....

My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone. Be safe... But not too safe. #Adventure #desert...

Work on the new book is progressing slower now, since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of so much of our society's day-to-day...

A long walk alone into the dark desert with no companion, no guide, no certainty and no companions. My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn...

Several miles into the desert at night I've found the remnants and memory of a long past desert mining adventure. What ever did this man hav

I saw this young man alone in the desert some miles outside Palm Springs, California. He'd made a life for himself on his own terms -...

“For whilst anger is the foe of reason, it nevertheless does not arise in any place where reason cannot dwell.” -Seneca Today I...