Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
The day started so early, our alarms sounded at 4:30, well before sunrise. We wasted very little time and were in the car shortly before 5. The west side of the park was a 45 minute drive away and the girls tried to snooze, but I kept demanding they look at the sunrise. We were […]
Read More Day 13: Saguaro NPToday we got up and 4:30 am. We left our hotel at 4:45. We drove to the bottom the mountain we climbed today. It was a 45 minute drive to the trailhead. We started the hike 🚶 around 5:45. The hike up was hard there was a lot of scrabbling in the beginning. The trail […]
Read More Day 13 and we hiked another mountain which was so fun and I cannot wait for the rest of the road trip! 😛Today we climbed another Mountain!! We started by waking up at 4:30. It was good when we start it was nice not being in the sun but now I am exhausted. The hike up was fun. We walked in a wash and and saw lizards, birds, and cactus surrounding us. Even now if I look […]
Read More Wassin PeakI wrote this yesterday but forgot to publish it: Because I want to jump in the pool this isn’t going to be the most explicit of posts. I need to start with breakfast. When you think of hotel breakfast what do you think of? Cereal, yogurt, pancakes? Well this breakfast had made to order omlets, […]
Read More Saguaro National ParkToday we got up at 7:00 and had the most amazing breakfast at the hotel. They had made to order omelets , pastries, fruit, and so much more. Then we went to Seguaro National Park. It was so cool 😎. The cactuses were so tall. I think we were the only people who hiked today […]
Read More Day 12 and we are staying at the most amazing hotel and it has a big outside pool that is so so so so so much fun to jump into.We discovered another great place in our country today, Saguaro National Park. After sleeping in a bit we leisurely made it to the east side of the park and were provided with a great map of the trials and a few suggestions of what would fit our energy levels. We began the Loma Verde Loop, […]
Read More Day 12: Saguaro National Park“I have seen things that you will never see” – REM Although today seemed a bit like cheating since we only hiked 4 miles, we made up for the lack of mileage with some awesome sights! Of course, the Saguaro cacti that Saguaro National Park is named for are amazing. They towered over us as […]
Read More Try Not to BreatheToday I got up at 6:00 and Zoe and I played phase 10. Then we packed up all of are stuff, this was one of my favorite hotels. After that we got in the car 🚗 and drove to Coronado national memorial. In the car I read the best book, it is called Dear Opl. […]
Read More Day 11 and we are already a fourth done with our trip.😋Last night I got the best sleep I had all trip. The bed was ridiculously comfy. When I woke up after way too much sleep I discovered it was only 6. After a couple rounds of Phase 10 with Ellie we started heading toward Cornado National Memorial. I didn’t really pay attention to the historic […]
Read More Another Mountain!“Babe, there’s something wretched about this / Something so precious about this / Oh what a sin” – Hozier Another day, another NPS site visit! Today we hit the Coronado National Memorial which sits on the north side of the Arizona / Mexico border. We’d be planning on a quick visit to Coronado Cave and […]
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