have pain, will travel; hiking the Black Hills with brucellosis survivor Marcus Heerdt [S3E15]
Elle Billing hosts long-time friend Marcus Heerdt, an adventurer, photographer, and award-winning newspaper reporter from Hot Springs, South Dakota. Marcus shares his experience with brucellosis, a rare foodborne illness he contracted in Spain in 2008, which led to chronic pain and damage to his joints and digestive system. He discusses his writing, landscape photography, and hiking adventures, and how he uses his connection to the natural world to mitigate the daily grind of life with pain.
Links to Marcus’s photography, to purchase his hiking guides, and all other resource links, are in the full show notes at hoorfpodcast.com
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Guest Spotlight: Marcus Heerdt
color headshot: Marcus Heerdt is a white man in his 30s. He has a reddish beard, and is smiling at the camera. He is wearing a black beanie, and a grey jacket and sitting on the side of a hill overlooking a river.
Marcus Heerdt is an award-winning author and newspaper reporter from Hot Springs, South Dakota. He has a wandering spirit that has led him to many amazing places. His hiking adventures have taken him to each of the 50 states, as well as far away places like the Yukon Territory, Spain, Russia and Kyrgyzstan. Marcus loves taking pictures and writing stories about his adventures. His work has appeared in books, newspapers, magazines, edited collections, and online publications.
Connect with Marcus:
Website: https://marcus-heerdt.pixels.com/
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