What is a Vagabond Pilgrim?

Hello Pilgrims! I hope you are doing well this time of year as the season starts to change. Here in the north, the weather is warming, the days lengthen, and we often turn our attention to plans outside in the yard, garden or if you're like myself, vacations, adventures, and maybe just weekend or day long trips to our favorite lakeside retreats or road trips.

Yellow Mounds of the Badlands National Park, South Dakota

When I started this website, I wanted to create an outlet for sharing my stories with likeminded travelers, photographers, bloggers and everyone else. Combining my hobbies into adventures is something I've always done. The idea of going camping often leads to spending five nights on a river, sleeping on sandbars and paddling a canoe down river. Pitching a tent in a dispersed camping location in the middle of a National Forest. There's always something more a simple camping trip can be turned into. So just who are the people I want to reach? They are you! Travelers, Adventurers, Day Trippers, Lake Hoppers. They are the wanderers, rovers, and nomads.

My Oldtown canoe beached on a sandbar along the Wisconsin River, August 2023

The dictionary defines a pilgrim as someone who travels to a sacred place for religious reasons. I found in my own travels that traveling itself could very well be either religious or at the very least have a profound effect on us. The ability to reconnect with nature, or recharge on a relaxing beach. Enjoy a beer with friends in a city you're visiting together. The connections we make with the places we visit. In this sense, we're all Pilgrims and we're all Vagabonds, so Welcome and I hope we can share in our adventures together.

As the late J.R.R. Tolkien wrote: "All Who Wander Are Not Lost"