Joan's guest is Robert Kull, author of "Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes" a year alone in the Patagonia Wilderness. Robert Kull has worked as a scuba instructor, travel guide, construction worker, logger, community organic gardening teacher, truck driver, bartender, dishwasher, painter, firefighter, photographer, and professor. In 2001 he traveled to a remote uninhabited island on the rainy, wind-swept coast of southern Chile. More than one hundred miles from other people, he built a shelter and lived alone for a year to explore the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of deep wilderness solitude. He lives in Vancouver, BC and his website is www.bobkull.org