Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We once again started the day with holiday inn breakfast then we stayed at the hotel untill about noon because we chipped our windshield and someone was coming to fix it. After that no one really wanted Peanut butter and jelly so we went to a grocery store where Zoe got a bagged salad my […]
Read More Day 19Today the alarm went off at 6:30 I got up at 7:30 Incase you haven’t been able to tell I am not morning person. After getting out of bed I got in hiking clothes and we drove to a donut shop. I got the butterfly donut I wasn’t really sure what it was but it […]
Read More Day 18This morning as the 6:30 alarm rang I dreadfully emerged from my sleep. We quickly got ready and then got some delicious donuts. We rarely get donuts on the trip but these were so good! We drove back to Durango and started the hike. It was SO pretty. You could see all of Durango the […]
Read More Hiking at Raider RidgeMy feet are up, I have a cold can of TJs wine, we’re watching rafters float down the Animas River, our Zia order has been placed, Zak and I have a date at Bookcase and the Barber, and the earlier portion of the day was filled with adventure and fun. Not a single complaint. We […]
Read More Day 18: Raider Ridge“I said, I-I-I-I-I’m not your steppin’ stone” Paul Revere & The Raiders Finally a full on mountain hike! Alright, it wasn’t exactly “a mountain”, but we started low, hiked way up high, had great views of Durango below, AND smelled some pine. It was a damn fine day 18. For you stat lovers it was […]
Read More I’m Not Your Steppin StoneToday was by far the most relaxing day of the trip. My parents had a few meeting today so ellie and I took on Durango alone. We had 2 goals -get iced hot chocolate and -adopt a dog. And I will say we accomplished 1 of them. After an hour of walking around and picking […]
Read More Exploring DurangoWe 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 ParkToday we woke up in tents at chaco culture. We had cliff bars for breakfast then got in the car to drive to the trailhead for today. We once again were doing a hike that we had tried to do in the past but could not complete last time we had to turn around due […]
Read More Day 17This morning as we all emerged from our tents the 100 degree weather hit our exhausted faces. We ate an amazing Father’s day breakfast of clif bars and hit the trail. We started this hike a few years ago but turned around because we saw rain in the distance. This year however us and the […]
Read More Hiking at Chaco Culture“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 […]
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