Posts Written By
Hollie Ernest
Hollie is a botanist, forester, cyclist and swimmer, currently traveling around the world by bicycle. Her other essays have appeared in North Coast Journal, Humboldt Insider, Adventure Cyclist online, Cleveland Review of Books, and Redwoods magazine. To get in touch about anything at all, you can find her on Instagram @hollie_holly.
Sunscreen drips into my eyes. I use my hand to wipe sweat from my brow and wipe my hand on already saturated shorts.  “I was thinking strawberry and vanilla. What ...
Jul 11th, 2022
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“Well, now I can say I’ve done it,” he said as he squeezed out of the borrowed, narrow one-person tent. At age 63, it was my dad’s first time camping ...
Jun 10th, 2022
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There are people who do their laundry a few hours before they remember they have a flight, and there are people who pack six days in advance. These two people ...
May 6th, 2022
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When my trusty MSR Whisperlite International stove started sputtering in the high pampas of Ecuador, I stubbornly dug my heels in. I knew my stove so well that after years ...
Apr 8th, 2022
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I looked down at the sleeve of Oreos in my handlebar bag, the Pop-Tart crumbs embedded in my zipper, and I drank another gulp of chocolate milk. Sometimes it’s fun ...
Mar 4th, 2022
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I recently read that males use fewer exclamation points than females. I had never really thought about it, but I looked back on a string of texts with three of ...
Feb 7th, 2022
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Though my breathing was labored just going up the stairs, my body didn’t feel rested, and I worried about the mountainous Andean ascent that loomed ahead, I was ready to ...
Jan 11th, 2022
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Whenever I cancel a trip due to weather reports, it seems like whatever hellacious storm that is sure to come somehow misses me and I’m stuck inside with all the chores ...
Dec 7th, 2021
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