Time sure flies when you are having fun. Here we are, two weeks later back at home and slowly recovering from jet lag. Somehow I thought the going to would be worse than the coming back but I am still waking up at odd hours and have a headache that won’t quite fade. All worth…
At the beginning of this summer when I quit my job, I had several goals on my mind when I looked towards the summer and what I wanted to do with my time (besides hiking, of course). One of those goals revolved around my son, Mitchell. I haven’t talked much about here on the blog…
Have you ever had one of those moments you aren’t sure you can go forward and you most certainly can’t go back the way you came? On the first full day of our honeymoon trip to Arizona and Southern Utah, we got up in the morning and drove to the Paria Contact Station outside Grand…
If ever there was a tree with a story, it has to be this one. Labeled the “Tree of Life” by many, it draws people to the coastline of Washington State and HWY 101 hoping to see for themselves how just a few tenacious roots can possibly be keeping it suspended over a cave on…
I remember my first Thanksgiving road trip. It was right after I was married and we lived across the state about 5 hours from our families (if the pass was clear). Newly married and newly employed meant no time for traveling home. This meant we would be by ourselves for the holiday and I had…
As you wander around in this amazing state of ours, are you like me and gaze at the intricate rock formations and mammoth stone features as you make your way along trails and shoreline and wonder to know what forces brought them about? I usually don’t buy books these days but when I saw this…