Sitemap - 2025 - Tom Ryan, Author

Our Favorite Coddiwomple Stop

The Lovely Calm Before the Rush

2025 - 2026 Framed Photos for Founding Members

June's What Are You Reading?

Founding Member Exclusive: Heart Song

It’s Book Writing Season

Heatwave Thoughts

A Welcome Visitor

Summer Bliss Interrupted

A Samise Health Update

Checking In

This Year’s Founding Members Photos

"Honestly, It's Not For Everyone"

Help Choose This Year’s Founding Member Photos

The Ghosts of Nebraska

Three Bears

Memorial Day: Thank You, Lloyd

Coming Tuesday: Founding Member Photos for 2025

Video: A Samwise Health Update

Big Photo News

My Aging Samwise

Our Route Home from the American West

It’s May 14 & Spring Has Arrived

May's What Are You Reading?

A Sacred Walk

Rainy Day Cozy

Meeting Margaret & Ian

A Short Sunday Morning Samwise Story

Miracles

The Way Home, Chapter One: A Final Morning with Our Bison Brethren

Home Sighs

April’s What Are You Reading?

Greetings from the White Mountains of New Hampshire

Where Are We?

For the Love of Donkeys

Three Days from Home

Two Life Highlights, 39 Years Apart

Tell us about your Easter & Passover practices and memories

Founding Members Video Preview

An Astounding Communion with a Wild Horse

A Stunning Day with the Prairie Wilds

Postcards from the Open Road: A Yellowstone Afternoon

A Visit to the Salt Flats: Fulfilling a 56 Year Old Dream

Founding Members Preview

Back to Nevada: Great Basin National Park

A Quick Check-In from Idaho

California Poppies

Coming Attraction: The Dakotas

Changes Ahead: A Return to Two States

A Ride Through the Redwoods

Reverence Considered Along the Cascade Range

Founding Member Exclusive: 2 Minutes of Peace

Gifts of a Gated Road

Video Tour of Our Oregon Rental

A Prayer for Aging Dogs & Ancient Trees

Love Among the Redwoods

Onward, By All Means: To The Redwoods

A California Letter

A Special Day

Because of You, We're on the Substack Bestseller List

Coddiwomple Update

A Mariposa Reunion

The Road Ahead Is About to Get More Interesting

Mariposa Synchronicity

Carmel Sunsets & a Shot of Carl Jung

The Good Medicine of Carmel, California

Blessed by Solitude

Thank You, Morro Bay; We'll Miss You

Vicki & Mike & Their Spot

Up Next: John Steinbeck's Cannery Row

The Wild Pig Family of Chorro Creek

Flashback to Day Two on the Road

Meeting Rick & Elise While Looking for Wild Pigs

A Morro Bay Update on Our Stalker

A Palate Cleanser: Part 2 of Valley of Fire Postcards

Being Soft-Stalked

Morro Bay: Rain & Sun

Hello, Pacific! Hello, California!

A New Chapter: Leaving the Desert

Postcards: Valley of Fire State Park Hike

Founding Member Preview

Oh, Deer!

February's What Are You Reading?

Leaving Kanab

Our Favorite Kanab Walk

Sunrise at Bryce Canyon National Park

4 Minutes and 16 Seconds for Your Troubled Heart & Mind

Kanab Has Good Folk: Cindy

Two Las Vegas Trail Encounters

What a Difference a Sky Makes

A Valentine's Day Weekend Surprise

Ugh, Kanab Slop

Little Gifts Everywhere

Lovely Day/Lovely Arch

Post Delayed

Founding Member Advance Look

A Return to the Trails

What are your Super Bowl Plans?

An Afternoon in Arches National Park with Edward Abbey

Moab Love To Set Your Heart Right

Setting the Table & Making a Request

Sunrise at the Grand Canyon

And Then I Wept

A Founding Member Preview

Don’t you love it that these natural columns are called “Elephant’s Feet”?

Connie's Lessons on Fighting the Good Fight

Spider Rock, the Lair of the Mystical Na’ashjé'ii Asdzáá

Important Announcements from Tom, Samwise & Emily

In Praise of the Dirt Roads of the American West

Founding Member Exclusive Letter

Meeting Connie, 79 Years Young

January’s What Are You Reading?

The Pink House!

Oh, Savannah!

Emily’s Bliss

Samwise at Nine (and Atticus & Emily, too)

Sonoran Clouds

These City Mice Are Antsy

Rating Our Pet-Friendly Hotels, Motels & Rentals After 39 Nights

Passions Aflame: Some Backstory

A Coyote Encounter

The Apache Called It The Land of Standing Up Rocks

Postcards from the Open Road: Chiricahua National Monument Sunset

Desert Dive Motels Can Be Fun

They Lost 200 Pounds Together!

Today’s Sonoran Sunrise