Stachagonia

After 4.5 weeks of not shaving

After a trim and a cleanup – what an actual beard would look like

The ‘Pulp Fiction’

The goatee

The ‘Mask of Zorro’

The “19th Century Gangster”

The “Williamsburg Frontman”

The “Dictator”

The “Free at Last!”

I’ve tried to grow a beard a number of times, but never properly committed.  It gets itchy after a week or two and starts to look all scraggly and stupid, so I shave it.  But this time I swore I’d do it right.  This was my last chance to see what I look like as a mountain man.  So I emailed a bunch of my friends and told them I was going to grow a beard for as long as I was in Patagonia.  That way, there was accountability.  If I bailed out early, I’d face some humiliation.  I called the project “Stachagonia”.

The day we got to Santiago, our first stop out of Patagonia, I shaved that stupid thing into a variety of shapes.  Kristen couldn’t be happier to be rid of it, and neither could I.