Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
This day ended with a most delicious home cooked meal, laughter, and a place as good as home to sleep. But the start, let’s begin there. We woke up early and were at Colorado National Monument as the Visitor’s Center was opening. We didn’t have a set hike in mind, but knew we wanted something […]
Read More Day 35: Colorado National Monument and the BerrysThis morning I woke up and Ellie wasn’t in the bed. After a moment of panic I looked over and she was with my parents. After breakfast we headed to Colorado National Monument. We went to the visitors center. The Rangers suggested a bunch of hikes but then said we should do a different one. […]
Read More Colorado National Monument, Grand Junction, and the Berry’sToday we got up at 6:45 and packed up ☝the room. We got breakfast. Then we drove to Colorado National Monument. We only did a little hiking. We did two or three trails 👣. My mum got so annoyed with the map for some reason. We drove to a store but It was closed. Then […]
Read More Day 34 and we went.to.Colorado national monument and saw the Berry’s😛“If they want to stay they stay If they want to go they go They don’t care how they get there long as they get somewhere they know” – Eric Hutchinson When we woke up the smell of fish in the room had diminished significantly, hopefully a good omen for the rest of the day. […]
Read More Rock & RollOur time in Utah has wrapped up. For the final time in 2018, we’ve left the state I’ve fallen so in love with. For several years now, I’ve stated that Utah is my favorite state and if I could move anywhere it would be there. Unfortunately, I’m the only one in the family with that […]
Read More Day 33: Arches National Park and Fruita, Colorado“What a field-day for the heat” – Buffalo Springfield Today I discovered my favorite part of Arches NP, the hike to Tower Arch. We hadn’t planned on hiking there at all, but I’m really glad we did. Last night Ranger Mike suggested we climb/hike a route used by repelers with views over the southern parts […]
Read More For What It Is WorthToday we got up ☝at 6:45 and packed up ☝the room. We got some breakfast for the car 🚗and drove to Arches National Park 😛. We started the hike 🚶 Ranger Mike had suggested last night 🌙. It had a lot of steep climbs. One was just too hard for us so we turned around😢 […]
Read More Day 33 and we spent one ☝ more day at Arches National Park😝This morning we woke up, and drove to Arches. Last night we went out for dinner and it was super good! We drove to the Park Avenue trail head and walked a few minutes to the trail we planned on doing today. After walking about 10 minutes we had to go up. We scrambled on […]
Read More Last Day at Arches and the RodeoMy favorite day of the trip. No doubt. Hands down the best. We woke up early and grabbed coffee at Love Muffin, splurging on an latte. We were back to Arches shortly after 7:30 and to the Fiery Furnance trailhead by 8. This trail is quite unique, a maze of fins and boulders and we […]
Read More Day 32: Arches National ParkToday we got up☝at 6:45 and grabbed some breakfast for the car 🚗. We drove to the fiery furnace hike🚶. We did this hike 🚶 with Ranger Mike yesterday. Today we did it by ourself. We started going up ☝ the trail 👣 and were able to climb up some rocks it was so cool […]
Read More Day 32 and we saw 👀 Ranger Mike again and he let me go in the back by the offices