We are Monica and Mark, two people from wildly different backgrounds who magically managed to find each other in Scotland and connect through our shared interests in the natural world, astronomy, science, and great food.
We started this newsletter alongside a few other side hustles in order to share our enthusiasm for the outdoors while bringing in a little income to support eatsleepwild.com.
Here’s what you get when you join our adventure
We love writing this newsletter and get immense personal value from it. We also consider it one of our jobs, and invest a lot of time, money, and learning into the travel and gear required to create this content and the freely available content on our website eatsleepwild.com. We hope you' find value in it, too, and consider upgrading to a paid subscriptions.
Paid Subscribers get…
Recipes for adventure - Bi-monthly recipes for hiking, camping, and van nights (e.g. This Wild Camping Haggis for Burns Night)
My Adventure - Personal stories about travels around Scotland (e.g. Scottish Winter: Why The Darkest Days are Often The Best Days to Be Outside)
Freedom Quest - stories about living the freelance lifestyle - or freestyle as I call it!
This Month in Astronomy - Mark literally spends days on these! They are packed with info. See, for example, November and December 2023.
Other premium content when we’re in the mood
Founding Members Get…
Eternal gratitude
A virtual or in-person session with Mark or Monica on an activity of your choice:
Day hike
How to navigate (in person or online)
Astro night (in person)
Astrophotography guidance (in person or online)
Freelance freedom consultation
Free members get the occasional free post and previews of paid posts. Sounds boring, doesn’t it?
Our aim is to inspire outstanding, delicious, and sustainable adventures in wild places across the UK. We’ll do this by sharing our own tales of adventure, learning moments, Scotland highlights, delicious recipes, and hopefully a bit of inspiration about how to achieve a lifestyle that’s as close to free as you can get in this capitalist world! We hope you’ll join us on our journey!
