Heart and Sole

Feet tread the good earth and the Spirit soars.
Step out. Discover your path.

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

25,000+ miles! Recap of a Hiking Life (so far)

Onward and upward! Don't look back and never give up. This is no melodramatic 'I'm getting old, and this might be the last you...

Friday, May 23, 2025

The Delusion of a Well-Ordered, Self-Consistent Universe

We live in a world that is, objectively, vastly different from what we think it is. Here is an example of one of our most common biases. I...

Monday, May 12, 2025

Breaking my New Year's Resolution???

As I posted on January 1st, my resolution for 2025 was to do an outdoor hike of at least five miles every single day this year, no excepti...

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Sketch Pad - The View from Outside the Box: Big breaking news in Cosmology

The "Creation of Reality" out of the Virtual Vacuum: a co-equal superposition of "nothing" and "something" spo...

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PJ Wetzel - Long Distance Hiker, Big Picture thinker, Retired NASA Earth Scientist, Grandpa

PJ Wetzel: Welcome. This site is about traveling the natural way—on foot.

“…the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours—as the swinging of dumb-bells or chairs; but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day."

— Henry David Thoreau

Our compulsion to walk, to seek out new horizons, is the defining characteristic of our species. We are the ape who left the trees to explore the world. Walking upright led to tool use, agriculture, community, and technology. Sadly, with each new step, we are straying further from the sustainable ways of our ancestors.

Walking leaves minimal impact. Today, most of us travel in machines, swarming over the land, not caring. This blog is meant as a reminder, a warning, and a call to return to a way of balanced living that is in harmony with our world.

Although hike-related posts are the majority, there's also a generous sprinkling of what used to be called 'Natural Philosophy'. I'm an obsessive 'Big Picture Thinker.' For me this is just another way of finding great Paths to travel.

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