Hi, I’m Blake. Welcome to my little corner of the web.
🐿️ In a nutshell
I’m a traveling writer and experiential educator with a deep love for adventure.
42 years old. California native, currently living in Europe.
My life is low-income, high-freedom, and filled with nature, travel, dance, and friends. Read more at The Adventures of Blake.
I believe that a surprising number of kids don’t need school to become happy or successful adults: an idea I’ve explored through books, speaking, podcasting, and my Unschool Adventures trips for teenagers.
Currently I’m writing a new book, creating on TikTok, and running meetups for young adults who don’t find a home in the normal world of work. Browse my zine, Do What You Love and Die Trying, to taste what I’m offering.
Please enjoy this personal/professional website, with all its nooks and crannies. Get in touch anytime.
✍️ Recently published
- I’m Writing a New Book
- America vs. Europe
- My European Summer 🌞💔
- How Do You Know When You’re Rich?
- Ten Things I’m Glad I Did in my 20s
- Reform Education with Adventure
- Conflicted Thoughts about Having Kids
- The Carretera Austral
- 81 Adventure Challenges for Young People
- House, Room, Home
- A Cheater’s Guide to the Bay Area Ridge Trail
- Living Safely is Dangerous and Deadly
“Being a writer is an act of perpetual self-authorization.”
—Verlyn Klinkenborg
📍 Current location (más o menos)
“The true risks of travel are disappointment and transformation: the fear you’ll be the same person when you go home, and the fear you won’t.”
—Kate Harris
Top photo: Camino de Sharkiago, 2022