Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We had the fortune to take a mini vacation with friends in for the past three days. Our dear friends, the Otts, who live just a couple of blocks down from us, are doing an epic RV trip and allowed us to to spend a few days with them hiking and exploring. Out adventures started […]
Read More Days 11, 12, and 13: Canyonlands, Arches, COhome (iii)“Won’t you meet me out tonight in Mancos” Stillhouse Junkies Apologies that it’s been so long since I’ve posted. We’ve had a whirlwind of a last few days. I’m not going to try to recap everything we’ve done in the past 3-4 days, but I will try to hit some highlights. Our good friends The […]
Read More (Mancos Kind of) Saturday NightToday started at 7:30 for me but after stumbling out of my tent I found out everyone else had been up since 5:30 when the workers came to start working on the house. We had camp hot coco and coffee. We then took the Ott’s to one of our favorite restaurants. The ABC cafe. We […]
Read More Day 13(This post was written my myself (Ellie), Vivvi, and Wally V). Today started at the campground we were all staying. Most of us woke up with little to no sleep. I had a breakfast of a cliff bar and Wally and Vivvi both muffins. Our parents took what felt like an hour to get some […]
Read More Day 11There is a lot I could write about today, but it’s late. I’ll utilize the bullet point option. We did a perfect hike at Mesa Verde and I don’t think I’ll ever stop pinching myself that MV is practically our backyard. Absolute Bakery and Cafe is the best and we were recognized by one of […]
Read More Day 10: Mesa Verde to Moab“if I don’t die by Thursday I’ll be roarin’ Friday night” Jimmy Buffett Hello, Utah! We’re currently on our way to Moab after an eventful morning in the tri-city area. I was up with the birds at 4:30 this morning. In particular the bird that kept singing “tweet, tweet, tweet, tweetledeeteleedeetele. tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, […]
Read More My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink And I Don’t Love JesusHonestly today might be my first five mountain day. If you have no idea what I talking about let me explain, At the end of each day we fill out a little journal just so that in a few years we are able to go back and read about past trips One of the things […]
Read More Day 10Gnats. That’s pretty much all I thought about all day. Yesterday, they were hovering around us as we wondered the property. I kept telling the girls not to worry about them, they weren’t biting us, they were just a nuisance. At dinner time I noticed red dots along my sock line, but they weren’t raised […]
Read More Day 9: COhome (ii)Today was a very relaxing not busy day so again there isn’t much to write about. Everyone else woke up late today but I went to bed super early last night because my phone died I was up before 6:45. Finally at 8 everyone else started getting out of bed and starting the day. My […]
Read More Errands and CO home“I been hangin’ around this town on the corner I been bumming around this old town for way too long” Counting Crows This is going to sound a little odd, but bear with me. The highlight of today was going to the Mancos Post Office. The first delivery to CO Home (a ladder) came via […]
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