Introduction

"Purposeless Wandering" is an allusion to the concept of nondoing or wu-wei as expressed in the ancient Chinese wisdom literature, the Tao Te Ching. Just as non-doing does not mean doing nothing, so purposeless wandering does not mean going nowhere.


And so, this log is presented as a simple update on some of the wanderings in my life within the spectacular context of Ouray, Colorado. As you can see in the satellite view , this is some of the wildest and most undevelopped terrain in the U.S.