Joe Baur
@baurjoe.bsky.social
Adventure and travel writer/filmmaker. Words in BBC Travel, National Geographic, Saveur, The Guardian, and more. Watch me run around at YouTube.com/JoeBaur
Let the queries begin!!!
September 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Let the queries begin!!!
Scotland. Few places pluck my heart strings quite like this dazzling land of misty munros, technical trails, and rumbling rivers that cut through the land like an ancient script, telling a timeless tale you can only understand by tracing its path.
September 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Scotland. Few places pluck my heart strings quite like this dazzling land of misty munros, technical trails, and rumbling rivers that cut through the land like an ancient script, telling a timeless tale you can only understand by tracing its path.
Hey, sports fans! I’m running 326 miles (525 kilometers) in 5 days to fight breast cancer with Stand Up To Cancer. Here’s why.
September 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hey, sports fans! I’m running 326 miles (525 kilometers) in 5 days to fight breast cancer with Stand Up To Cancer. Here’s why.
Leaving Scotland, I’m just realizing I haven’t seen a single Union Jack—except in news articles referencing people putting up Union Jacks in England.
September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Leaving Scotland, I’m just realizing I haven’t seen a single Union Jack—except in news articles referencing people putting up Union Jacks in England.
Wonderful day running along Loch Ness on the Great Glen Way.
September 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Wonderful day running along Loch Ness on the Great Glen Way.
I don’t need sunny skies or beaches. Perhaps that’s why I’m always so wildly charmed by soggy ole Scotland. This train ride up to the Bridge of Orchy is gorgeous. Can’t wait to run around this landscape over the next four days!
August 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I don’t need sunny skies or beaches. Perhaps that’s why I’m always so wildly charmed by soggy ole Scotland. This train ride up to the Bridge of Orchy is gorgeous. Can’t wait to run around this landscape over the next four days!
Nothing is as healing as nature.
The crunch of the trail, the smell of fresh pines, the thumping of your heart on steady inclines to remind you that you’re alive.
The crunch of the trail, the smell of fresh pines, the thumping of your heart on steady inclines to remind you that you’re alive.
August 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Nothing is as healing as nature.
The crunch of the trail, the smell of fresh pines, the thumping of your heart on steady inclines to remind you that you’re alive.
The crunch of the trail, the smell of fresh pines, the thumping of your heart on steady inclines to remind you that you’re alive.
As I continue to move away from pitching-pitching-pitching, I’m going to encourage myself to write about whatever strikes my fancy. At the moment, that’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
August 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As I continue to move away from pitching-pitching-pitching, I’m going to encourage myself to write about whatever strikes my fancy. At the moment, that’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
After announcing a graphic novel
I’m working on, I immediately redid the intro this morning.
But that’s a good thing! Now we get into the story and our faux RPG/Zelda world a lot faster. That’s where the fun happens.
I’m working on, I immediately redid the intro this morning.
But that’s a good thing! Now we get into the story and our faux RPG/Zelda world a lot faster. That’s where the fun happens.
August 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
After announcing a graphic novel
I’m working on, I immediately redid the intro this morning.
But that’s a good thing! Now we get into the story and our faux RPG/Zelda world a lot faster. That’s where the fun happens.
I’m working on, I immediately redid the intro this morning.
But that’s a good thing! Now we get into the story and our faux RPG/Zelda world a lot faster. That’s where the fun happens.
Did you grow up on Zelda, Final Fantasy, and the like?
Then you might be into this.
Then you might be into this.
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Did you grow up on Zelda, Final Fantasy, and the like?
Then you might be into this.
Then you might be into this.
August 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A year ago, I became a German citizen. open.substack.com/pub/withouta...
I Got German Citizenship! (And you can, too)
Plus, how vegans survive in the land of jamón
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A year ago, I became a German citizen. open.substack.com/pub/withouta...
Words worth sharing on the state of ‘work,’ but especially the precarious (to say the least) landscape for writers and creatives. rojospinks.substack.com/p/everyone-i...
Everyone I know is worried about work
On finding a new source of security
rojospinks.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Words worth sharing on the state of ‘work,’ but especially the precarious (to say the least) landscape for writers and creatives. rojospinks.substack.com/p/everyone-i...
Who's running the Berlin Marathon this year!? 👀
I've run it three times, but am sitting it out this year to focus on some other goals. BUT! I'll still be in town, hosting 'pay what you want' running tours during the week leading up to the race.
I've run it three times, but am sitting it out this year to focus on some other goals. BUT! I'll still be in town, hosting 'pay what you want' running tours during the week leading up to the race.
August 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Who's running the Berlin Marathon this year!? 👀
I've run it three times, but am sitting it out this year to focus on some other goals. BUT! I'll still be in town, hosting 'pay what you want' running tours during the week leading up to the race.
I've run it three times, but am sitting it out this year to focus on some other goals. BUT! I'll still be in town, hosting 'pay what you want' running tours during the week leading up to the race.
I feel like it's a writer cliché to suddenly and aggressively get obsessed with an idea, absolutely certain that it *needs* to get published.
Anywho... Just submitted a round of queries for a graphic novel pitch.
It's me. I'm the cliché.
(But I do think it's a really good idea.)
Anywho... Just submitted a round of queries for a graphic novel pitch.
It's me. I'm the cliché.
(But I do think it's a really good idea.)
August 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I feel like it's a writer cliché to suddenly and aggressively get obsessed with an idea, absolutely certain that it *needs* to get published.
Anywho... Just submitted a round of queries for a graphic novel pitch.
It's me. I'm the cliché.
(But I do think it's a really good idea.)
Anywho... Just submitted a round of queries for a graphic novel pitch.
It's me. I'm the cliché.
(But I do think it's a really good idea.)
Sauna, kayak, and cinnamon rolls. Check out our 48 hours in Helsinki. youtu.be/yvLOpVPpOg4
48 Hours in Helsinki: Sauna, Kayak & Cinnamon Rolls
YouTube video by Joe Baur | Off The Beaten Path Travel
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Sauna, kayak, and cinnamon rolls. Check out our 48 hours in Helsinki. youtu.be/yvLOpVPpOg4
I’m sure this is dips into some sort of writer cliché, but…
I have an idea I wrote out a few years ago as a screenplay. It was (another writer’s cliché) one of those ideas that came and poured out of me. Sci-fi / fantasy, lightly nostalgic and personal. Unlike anything I typically write.
I have an idea I wrote out a few years ago as a screenplay. It was (another writer’s cliché) one of those ideas that came and poured out of me. Sci-fi / fantasy, lightly nostalgic and personal. Unlike anything I typically write.
August 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I’m sure this is dips into some sort of writer cliché, but…
I have an idea I wrote out a few years ago as a screenplay. It was (another writer’s cliché) one of those ideas that came and poured out of me. Sci-fi / fantasy, lightly nostalgic and personal. Unlike anything I typically write.
I have an idea I wrote out a few years ago as a screenplay. It was (another writer’s cliché) one of those ideas that came and poured out of me. Sci-fi / fantasy, lightly nostalgic and personal. Unlike anything I typically write.
I wrote about how seeing Superman as a refugee — and the messaging in the latest film — has changed my feelings on a character I used to think was one-dimensional. substack.com/home/post/p-...
In Praise of Superman
A Man of Tomorrow for Today
substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I wrote about how seeing Superman as a refugee — and the messaging in the latest film — has changed my feelings on a character I used to think was one-dimensional. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Living in Germany is realizing another public holiday is coming up and having to ask, “What did Jesus do this time?”
June 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Living in Germany is realizing another public holiday is coming up and having to ask, “What did Jesus do this time?”
I ran a 170-kilometer (100+ miles) trail race through Nepal’s Mustang region. Suffice it to say, this was no ordinary trail run.
June 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I ran a 170-kilometer (100+ miles) trail race through Nepal’s Mustang region. Suffice it to say, this was no ordinary trail run.
I thought of myself as a cyclist long before I thought of myself as a runner.
14 years ago, I was riding the Tour of Flanders. Now, it’s a rarity that I get out on the bike.
14 years ago, I was riding the Tour of Flanders. Now, it’s a rarity that I get out on the bike.
June 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I thought of myself as a cyclist long before I thought of myself as a runner.
14 years ago, I was riding the Tour of Flanders. Now, it’s a rarity that I get out on the bike.
14 years ago, I was riding the Tour of Flanders. Now, it’s a rarity that I get out on the bike.
In all my years of weight training, I’ve never felt the need to mimic the sounds of a mating humpback whale while lifting a weight.
May 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
In all my years of weight training, I’ve never felt the need to mimic the sounds of a mating humpback whale while lifting a weight.
Japan has ancient ninja villages. 🥷
No, seriously! And back in November, I visited them to learn more about the region, the people, and the mythology that sprung the ninjas we know today.
That also meant running an ultramarathon surrounded by runners dressed as ninjas. youtu.be/jDtyhwp0Vb8
No, seriously! And back in November, I visited them to learn more about the region, the people, and the mythology that sprung the ninjas we know today.
That also meant running an ultramarathon surrounded by runners dressed as ninjas. youtu.be/jDtyhwp0Vb8
Running Through Japan’s Ancient Ninja Villages (Ultra Trail Run)
YouTube video by Joe Baur | Off The Beaten Path Travel
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Japan has ancient ninja villages. 🥷
No, seriously! And back in November, I visited them to learn more about the region, the people, and the mythology that sprung the ninjas we know today.
That also meant running an ultramarathon surrounded by runners dressed as ninjas. youtu.be/jDtyhwp0Vb8
No, seriously! And back in November, I visited them to learn more about the region, the people, and the mythology that sprung the ninjas we know today.
That also meant running an ultramarathon surrounded by runners dressed as ninjas. youtu.be/jDtyhwp0Vb8
All set and ready to go. Only thing left to do is run the damn thing.
50K running around Alsace starts tomorrow morning at 7am.
Aren’t ya jealous!?
See y’all tomorrow afternoon ✌️
50K running around Alsace starts tomorrow morning at 7am.
Aren’t ya jealous!?
See y’all tomorrow afternoon ✌️
May 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
All set and ready to go. Only thing left to do is run the damn thing.
50K running around Alsace starts tomorrow morning at 7am.
Aren’t ya jealous!?
See y’all tomorrow afternoon ✌️
50K running around Alsace starts tomorrow morning at 7am.
Aren’t ya jealous!?
See y’all tomorrow afternoon ✌️
@bahn.de Hallo! Ich habe ein Ticket für mich und meine Frau. Wegen Arbeit kann ich die Rückreise nicht mehr machen, aber meine Frau wird noch zurückreisen. Kann sie das gleiche Ticket benutzen?
May 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@bahn.de Hallo! Ich habe ein Ticket für mich und meine Frau. Wegen Arbeit kann ich die Rückreise nicht mehr machen, aber meine Frau wird noch zurückreisen. Kann sie das gleiche Ticket benutzen?