The Diaries is supported by headlamps.

Ever been stuck in the woods a night without one?

Me neither.

But for real, the difference between a shiverbivvy and a pleasant night hike through the woods is just a little bit of light.

And every time someone joins the Diaries Plus, they give us like a little extra support to try these

hard things, right? And that is incredible. It allows us to push harder because the things we're

doing, the kind of stories we are creating and reporting on, it's the same thing as taking on a

big climb and knowing that there's a good chance you won't make

it home for dinner but you're going to go anyway you're going to try something difficult because you know

you have that little bit of light that's what it's done for us when people have joined the diaries

plus every time someone joins and says i support what you are doing we believe a little bit more

in ourselves we dream just a little bit more in ourselves.

We dream just a little bit bigger for what this show, what this project can become.

So please consider joining this global community.

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Support the show. In early summer of 2007, after three days of driving across the country, my dad and I pulled off the highway towards

Laramie, Wyoming. I just graduated college and accepted a job as an astronomy research

assistant at the University of Wyoming. I'd never spent much time away from the East Coast,

but the year-long postback drew me in with the promise of research experience in the field I would

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