Sitemap - 2023 - Tom Ryan, Author

Sunrise on Thoreau’s Great Beach

Founding Member Preview from the Outer Cape

An Unforgettable Christmas Gift

Postcards from the Open Road: A Cape Christmas

Founding Member Exclusive

Divine Concord: A Highlight Stop

Samwise's Wonderful Life

Leaving Home & Arriving in Concord, Part One

Postcards from the Open Road: Cape Cod National Seashore

Founding Members Exclusive: Our First 24 Hours on the Road

A Quick Concord Snippet

A Visit to the Albany Covered Bridge

Bonus: A World of Our Own

The Wintry Comforts of New England; the Tug of the Open Road

Places We Won’t Go—But Wish We Could

December's What are you reading?

Plans Change, Excitement Builds, Adventure Awaits!

A Founding Member Exclusive: A Christmas Day Willaby

A Trip Update

A Winter Ode to Soup...and Carl!

Regarding Clarence...and Social Observation

Postcards from Our Stunning Snowstorm

An Exclusive Founding Members Video

Waking Up to Backyard Snow!

We Long for Happy Feet

Emily Begins a New Life Chapter

Change in Trip Plans

Comfort & Joy with Samwise & Emily

On the Darkest & Coldest Night

Cranberry ~ Orange Cornbread Muffins Recipe

A Silent Night Moonlit Snow Trek

A Thanksgiving Fast

Wonder!

Some Video Magic for You!

An Exclusive Preview for Founding Members

Our 2024 Road Trip Audiobook Library

November’s What are you reading?

News Regarding Sam, Emi & Abe

Morning Snow!

Holiday Greeting Cards

Faces From the Open Road: Charles

Flowers, Gratitude, Will, Choices

Unveiling Our 2024 Calendar

November: When the Leaves are Crisp, but the Air is more so!

Into the Night (Hikes)

Video Valentine to Our Beloved Beech Trees

Emily Week

My Late October Wrestling Match

Postcards from a Splendid White Mountain Ramble

How My Favorite Actress Came to Hike with Us During September’s Full Moon

A Founding Member Post: Autumn Training Treks

Samwise & Emily Meet a Bear

October’s what are you reading?

Racing the Tourist Train

An October Walk

Our Mountain Lion Encounters

Thank you for a record-shattering September!

Two More Trip Reveals

A Return Trip to Morro Bay

Personality Profiles from the Open Road

It’s a Bob Socci Day

Losing Mary Oliver

The Mystery of Mary Oliver

Cards from our National Parks

A Founding Member Post: Photo Updates

A Quick Samwise & Emily Health Update

A Return to Happiness

Another Trip Reveal: The Longest Stop of Our 2024 Winter/Spring Travels

September's What are you reading?

September Swelter & Other Updates

A Final Calendar Vote

Which National Park Would You Choose?

Round 2: Choose a photo for the Samwise & Emily 2024 Calendar!

Choose the Grand Canyon Photograph for our 2024 Samwise & Emily Calendar

Introducing The Great American Dead Writer's Society Tour of 2024

Announcements, Paige Foster Comments (shut down), Coming Attractions, Big Horn Canyon

Your Framed Photo

How do you do blue?

Bear Necessities in a Noisy World

The Final Paige Foster Chapter

Part 4: Whatever Happened to Paige Foster?

Status Report: Yes, we are alive

Question for you: Where would you go?

Skinny-Dipping Bliss

A Full Moon Hike

July's what are you reading?

Summer Nights with May Sarton

A Dramatic End to Another Stormy Day

Samwise & Emily's Nice Cream Recipe

Ditching Instagram

Question: How do you travel?

A Presidential Wannabe Asks to Hike with Us

The Sacrament of the Wilds

Emily & the Thorne Pond 5

Resetting Boundaries

Emily's Diagnosis

Postcards from Badlands National Park

Our 90-Minute Traffic Stop in Bison Country

A Question about Mail

These Dog-Melting Days

The Church Before Mass

Revisiting a Frozen Sunset at the Grand Canyon

My Heart

A Summer Solstice Gift

Our Hike to Morning Glory Arch

A Valley of Fire Encounter

Announcement to all Founding Subscribers

Paige Foster, Chapter 2: “Carry Him Everywhere You Go”

Chapter 1 of the Paige Foster Letters

My WHY

Syncope, My Old Friend

Posts Delayed

A Question: Where are you going this summer?

Calling All Bears

2023 Founders Photo Announced

Provincetown: Chapter One

Video: How We Bison Sit

Sitting with Mother Goose

Exclusive Letter to Founding Members

From Atticus to Samwise to Emily: How We Grow

Happy to Be Home & Healthy

A Skinny-dipping Video to Make You Smile

Sick Days

Postcards from the Open Road: Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Tired But Blessed

Postcards from the Open Road: Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone, Here We Come*

Ibrahim and the Lonely Bench

Oh, Montana! (At least for a day)

A Willaby Palate Cleanser

A State of Depression

Mariposa Hill-Siding

East to the Foothills of the Sierra Nevada

Postcards from the Open Road: California’s Mid Coast

Leaving Morro Bay: A Bittersweet Departure

Timely Medicine

March’s What Books Have You Been Reading?

Come Hell or High Water...

Hoe-Down in the Hills

A Change of Plans—A Recurring Theme

The Hills Are Alive with Live Oaks

Samwise the Brave

Atascadero, California

Joshua Tree & Beyond: The Nicest Ride

White Sands Sunset Video

Coddiwomple Questions for You

Travel Day Thoughts

Postcards from the Open Road: Red Rock Canyon

Red Rock Canyon

A New Coddiwomple Emerges

February's What Are You Reading?

Postcards from the Open Road: A Hodgepodge of Nevada, Utah, New Mexico & Arizona

Our Sonoran Morning Hikes

Saving Private Ryan

A Sonoran Re-Do

Leaving Kanab

Over the Top!

The Top Highlights (So Far) from Our Coddiwomple

Postcards from the Open Road: Valley of Fire State Park

John Muir’s Savannah Lodgings

Little Blessings on the Road

A Kanab Respite

Postcards from the Open Road: Moab

January’s Reading List

Willie from Toomsuba

Splendid Isolation in Edward Abbey Country

Postcards from the Open Road: Thank You, Arizona

The Grandest Snow

Onward, By All Means to the Unknown

A Sweet Sonoran Visit Ends

White Sands National Park

Postcards from the Open Road: Saint Simons Island, MLK, Jr; Washington, DC & Selma

The Locountry

The Most Extraordinary Walk

Provincetown, You Touched Our Hearts

Postcards from the Open Road: Our First 4 Days

A Meeting in Provincetown's Witch Woods

Greetings, 2023