The morning started how every morning should, a hearty breakfast and strong coffee from Absolute Bakery and Cafe. Throw in great company and you’ll hardly remember the poor quality of camping sleep from the night before. With satisfied stomachs the four of us and Ranger Mike, headed to Mesa Verde. Zak picked a hike he’s […]

Read More Day 34: Mesa Verde

It’s late, much later than I typically stay up, let alone try to tackle a blog post. We just crawled into tents, after learning so much about the night sky from Ranger Mike. The morning was spent exploring a few of the cute shops in Dolores. We deiscovered the Dino Store, the shop I will […]

Read More Day 33: COhome

I think we were in Salt Lake City last I posted. I usually crave our city days, but had a really hard time adjusting to a city this time. I was anxious to get back to Colorado and hiking. Today we were able to get back on the trails. I think this will go down […]

Read More Day 32: Shark’s Tooth Trail

These next few days have had many things considered as plans. First, we were going back to COhome. Then we thought it would be a good time to do some mountain hiking in Leadville. After checking the weather, we thought it might be better to push that off until later in the summer. We toyed […]

Read More Day 28: Moab to Salt Lake City

I officially fell in love again with the Moab area this visit. All our hikes were perfect, we found some good food, soaked up the decent temperatures, mixed in some relaxation with adventure, and got to see Ranger Mike. Our hike today was easy, but so lovely. We’ve done the hike before a few years […]

Read More Day 27: Fisher Towers

We had an unexpected rest day. Rain started falling near the end of our first planned hike. Fearing flash floods, we opted to spend the rest of the day reading in a coffee shop and then at the pool. I guess the rest was needed, I’m exhausted! The hike we did was out to Morning […]

Read More Day 26: Morning Glory Natural Bridge

Today and a lot of good and a fair amount of bad. I’ll start with the more unfortunate, to get it out of the way. Ellie’s glasses broke. We’re trying the Gorilla Glue method of fixing them, but I’m not very hopeful. We’re heading to Salt Lake City in a couple of days where there […]

Read More Day 25: Canyonlands

We spent a lot of time debating about canceling our backpacking reservations at Canyonlands over the past couple of weeks. When we were here with the Otts, highs were in the hundred and teens. We knew we couldn’t hike and then camp in temps like that. But, when we looked at the weather a few […]

Read More Day 24: Canyonlands

I have so much to say about today, but don’t think I have the creative energy to write much tonight. I’ll do my best, but bear with me. We woke up early at COhome and hit the road to the Johnny Bull Trailhead north of Dolores. I knew we were ready for a longer hike, […]

Read More Day 23: Eagle Peak

I have loved every moment of the building a house process. From the get go, we’ve worked with the most competent, creative people at Kogan/Asher Custom Builders. (The company was sold mid-process and not a beat was skipped from our perspective.) We’re in the final weeks of the process and it’s time for us to […]

Read More Day 22: COhome (vi)