The Tale of Tall Tales
My name is Riley Fitting, a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa. Through everything, I make and lose friends. I think about my own thoughts and judge my own judgments. I do the best with what I have. In this blog, I elaborate upon my altruistic selfishness through experiences, thoughts, and questions. Enjoy.
Latest posts on https://taleoftalltales.wordpress.com/:
- Wyoming
I am writing this post after much separation from the hike, and maybe, the best description I have left of Wyoming is that Wyoming is the real American West. There is no path of least resistance for water in the great Wyoming basin. Here the little raindrops end where they fall, meeting heaven nor hell, … Continue reading Wyoming
- Update from the trail
This is a PSA Hello people who read this blog! My phone (the item that serves as my flashlight, navigation, notepad and camera) broke halfway through Wyoming. I cannot access any of the pictures I previously captured nor any of the notes I wrote to jog my memory for these posts. So, posts about the … Continue reading Update from the trail
- Colorado
Colorado never gets easier, you only get faster. The South San Juan mountains give you just enough of anything, yet everything at the same time. There are just enough north facing slopes to hold steep, corniced passes into late summer. Just enough live pines existing within the beetle-killed forests like stars in a dark sky. … Continue reading Colorado
- New Mexico
New Mexico is a place you love more the more time you spend in it. In the New Mexican bootheel, ocotillo hands with blistered fingertips claw out of the big hatchet mountains. Funneled wind howls stories of dead vaqueros and outlaws that died homesteading 100 acres per cow. There was a brush fire blazing through … Continue reading New Mexico
- Gear List
Backpack: gossamer gear kumo (customized with a pair of scissors) Shelter: oware 5x8ft silnylon tarp, borah gear UL bivy, a trekking pole and 6 tiny stakes Sleeping System: UGQ bandit quilt (20degree), zlite torso-length foam sleeping pad Clothes: patagonia baggies shorts, REI shirt, hoka one one shoes, sunglasses, running hat frog toggs rain jacket, balega … Continue reading Gear List
- 27/1/2018
I’ll continue to put up pictures on the picture page, but this might be my last post in South Africa. The writer’s block I’ve had isn’t letting up and I don’t want to keep writing about the same things I usually write about. No matter how apprehensive I feel about it, I know that leaving … Continue reading 27/1/2018