Two dispatches. One Oregon. No apologies.
The Foul Year & The Death Rattle
Notes from the road as the country comes apart — hiked, photographed, and typed up trip by trip, with Robert along for every mile.
Filed from the Willamette Valley, Oregon
Volume One — Published
This Foul Year of Our Lord, 2025
Oregon didn’t ask to be looked at this closely. In This Foul Year of Our Lord, 2025, Jason takes his camera and his complaints on the road — through burn scars and waterfalls, closed diners and open skies — chasing the state’s beauty and its bad news in the same afternoon. Equal parts hiking guide, confession, and dispatch from a place that keeps almost falling apart and never quite does.
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Volume Two — In the Field
The Great American Death Rattle, 2026
The Great American Death Rattle 2026 is what happens when the dust from This Foul Year Of Our Lord 2025 never really settles — it just gets kicked back up by another year of chaos, grief, bad headlines, backroad revelations, camera shutters, and the slow, grinding circus of modern American life. This is not a clean sequel. It’s not a victory lap. It’s the next dispatch from the edge.
Part field journal, part memoir, part roadside autopsy of a country wheezing through another strange year, The Great American Death Rattle 2026 follows one man trying to hold onto the things that still matter — family, friendship, photography, legacy, and the open road — while the wider world flails, screams, and sells its latest catastrophe like carnival barkers at the end of empire.
Set against the forests, rivers, ghost towns, coastlines, and forgotten corners of Oregon and beyond, this book drifts through hiking trips, camping expeditions, long nights, family memories, loss, fatherhood, old stories, and the quiet holy work of paying attention. It is a book about trying to keep your soul pointed toward something real while everything else gets louder, dumber, and more theatrical by the day.
Where This Foul Year Of Our Lord 2025 was about survival, movement, and documenting the strange beauty of one year lived hard and honestly, The Great American Death Rattle 2026 widens the lens. The personal remains at the center, but now the outside world presses harder against the glass — politics, culture, addiction, grief, history, faith, noise, and the uneasy feeling that the whole machine is rattling louder than it should.
Written in a voice steeped in gonzo grit, dark humor, and hard-earned reflection, this is a book for those who know that adventure is not always glamorous, that memory is heavy, and that sometimes the best way to face a collapsing circus is to grab your camera, hit the trail, and write it all down before the lights go out. Because if 2025 was foul, 2026 is the sound it makes on the way down.
Status: manuscript in progress · Target: January 2027 · Self-published via Amazon
Volume Three — Just Getting Started
Accidental Icons & Questionable Company
Run-ins, back rooms, and stories I didn’t plan to tell.
Status: notes accumulating · no release date yet
