A quick note here — after three months of reporting, two camping trips into the desert, and dozens of interviews, my feature on nomads living on public lands was published this week.

I’m really proud of how it came together. It’s hard to overstate what a privilege it was to spend time with this community — to share space, listen, and learn from people whose stories are so often overlooked or misunderstood.

The piece was co-published by The Guardian and RE:PUBLIC, and if you have twenty minutes, I think it’s worth your time.

From the essay —

For generations, the American promise has been tied to settlement – a deed, a mortgage, a fixed address. But the winter nomadic community reveals a different model of permanence, one defined less by walls than by movement, less by ownership than by return…

I’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming this Sunday.

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Good morning from the road. Well, from my tent, actually. It’s 1:42 a.m.

Woke up in a state of frenzy, my dreams speaking falsehoods about losing the hundreds of photographs snapped during the day for a story I’m working on.

I opened my eyes in the morning darkness, overheated, sweat running like streams across my chest, and squirmed free from the mummy bag. Found my camera by headlamp and flipped it on to see all the photos intact.

Let out a long sigh of relief and fell back onto my pillow.

Ripped off my jacket and shirt.

Wide awake. Thoughts spin…

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