Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We first spent time in the Chaco Canyon three years ago. That trip involved plans for a night of camping and a vicious looking storm that scared us away after only a couple of hours. I clearly remember Zak saying he couldn’t wait to spend more time learning about the hub of the region a […]
Read More Day 17: Chaco Culture National Historic Park“All we do Crumbles to the ground” Kansas I had high hopes for our trip to Chaco this year, but it turned out that COVID is still keeping some things closed. Chaco Culture NHP is the center of Ancestral Puebloan culture and a place I’d been eager to get back to since our first stop […]
Read More Dust in the Wind“Well I’m accustomed to a smooth ride … I don’t expect to sleep through the night Paul Simon As I write this I am reclining in a camp chair with my feet up on a rock in Chaco Canyon. I’m sipping the last cold water I may get for a couple days. There are rainclouds […]
Read More The Obvious ChildToday was the third annual, but only second, Mancos Burro Fest. It was everything a Burro Fest should be and is enough reason for everyone to visit Mancos the last Saturday of June. Let us know if you want to reserve a room at COhome for next year. The burro obstacle course involved them having […]
Read More Day 16: Burro Fest5/5 mountain day. We just finished a dinner of cheese, crackers, and cherries on the back porch of COhome. The sun will set soon on an exhausting, but super successful, road trip day. We slept in a bit, until 7:30, a true luxury on the road trip. The hike today was in Mancos State Park, […]
Read More Day 14: Mancos State Park and COhome (iv)If I learned one thing today it’s that fly’s apparently don’t understand English/human because I spent like 15 minutes and a lot more energy today yelling at them to get away from me and they did NOT listen. The day started with a breakfast sandwich from HIE. We had about a half hour drive to […]
Read More Day 14Last night we decided to book a hotel so we luxuriously got to sleep it. After a 30 minute drive that 100% DID NOT involve going up a super steep rock dirt road where we had to go 5 miles per hour and it still felt like a bad roller coaster we got to the […]
Read More Hiking at Mancos State Park“I wanna be the only one for miles and miles” The Chicks Today was a totally perfect Road Trip Day. I’m going to be a little disappointed if it doesn’t end up as a 5 mountain day. It also seemed to me like our first completely normal, typical, ordinary road trip day. Perhaps that’s what […]
Read More Cowboy Take Me AwayToday we woke up in a hotel witch was super nice and after a quick hotel breakfast of waffles we got back in the car and drove over to the RV park where the Ott’s were staying. We went for a hike in canyon lands and dispite it only being 2.5 miles it was over […]
Read More Day 12Sorry for not posting for the last few days but we were hanging with friends and we were all exhausted by 10:00. SUNDAY: We went to ABC for breakfast, if you ever go get the veggie frittata because it’s amazing and comes with the best homemade bread and jam. We did a long 7(?) mile […]
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