This little website of mine was founded on December 3rd, 2009. All year long, we’ve been celebrating 10 years of original essays, photography, lists, reviews, podcasts, and videos. More than the content, I have been celebrating you. Without you and your support, this website would be impossible. This hobby of mine has become a labor of love and something bringing me an intense amount of joy. From the bottom of my heart, thanks for reading.

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2019 Highlights

·        On December 3rd, this little corner of the internet celebrated its 10th anniversary.

·        In those 10 years, we’ve published 1,652 essays and reviews.

·        5 Patrons are currently supporting this work via Patreon

·        In the last year, nearly 5,000 people have visited Natetheworld.com. If you are one of those people, I want to say thank you!

Announcing the 2020 Writing Challenges

For 2020, my annual writing challenge will focus on cocktail recipes in a series I am calling, “Sauce: The Gin Diary.” On a monthly basis, I will be posting a gin-based cocktail recipe, as well as a backstory and my experience with the cocktail.

Announcing Brand New Series

In 2020, we will be introducing the following series… Get ready. There is a lot of them!

·       Reread

·       Captured Videos  

·       Best of Captured Videos 

·       A Journey of Discontent – Video Series 

·       Out/Back 

·       Out/Back: Favorite Hike of the Year 

·       A Response  

·       Overnight 

·       Tales of the Tattoo  

·       Playlist 

·       Dear Pacific Crest Trail (Year) 

 2020 Changes

From March to September of next year, I will be hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexican border to Manning Park in Canada through California, Oregon, and Washington. Throughout the journey, I will be posting regularly with updates and progress.

Also new for next year, I will be consolidating movie and music reviews into monthly digests. We will also say goodbye to the ongoing series, “Profile.”

From me and those who contribute to this website, I want to thank you for following along. I would write, record, and document even if no one paid attention, but it sure feels great to not be yelling into an empty room.

Be good to each other,

-Nathan

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