Archive - THE NEAR BEYOND

issue #13 (De)Extinction

Dire Wolves and Wooly Mammoths and Dodos, oh my...

Apr 9 •

Matthew Propert

March 2025

issue #12 Frozen Pen. Was too Tired to Write Last Night.

Appalachian Trail Journals

Mar 27 •

Matthew Propert

issue #11 Hrebeniv, Ukraine ~ Diary

Journal Entries and Photos from the Carpathian Mountains

Mar 17 •

Matthew Propert

May 2023

issue #10 A Very, Very Long Walk

Finding a wellspring of words in the wilderness

May 5, 2023 •

Matthew Propert

April 2023

issue #9 Death Valley is Seriously Trippy

Five days in one of the hottest driest places on Earth

Apr 18, 2023 •

Matthew Propert

March 2023

issue #8 No Time to Rush

The past year has been a difficult one for me.

Mar 17, 2023 •

Matthew Propert

issue #7 Photo Essay ~ Pinnacles National Park

Gorgeous landscapes after all the storms in California

Mar 13, 2023 •

Matthew Propert

February 2023

issue #6 Soggy, Stormy, and Miserable: My Appalachian Trail Nightmare

Flash Floods and Historic Rain in Shenandoah National Park

Feb 27, 2023 •

Matthew Propert

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January 2023

issue #5 From Ukraine to California

Jan 8, 2023 •

Matthew Propert

November 2022

issue #4 Rolling Blackouts

Lights out in Lviv

Nov 28, 2022 •

Matthew Propert

issue #3 The Caribbean island that changed my life.

The beginning of an era.

Nov 3, 2022 •

Matthew Propert

October 2022

issue #2 Photo Essay ~ Lviv, Ukraine

A few photographic reasons why this city continues to enchant.

Oct 25, 2022 •

Matthew Propert

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