Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Happy Holiday! It’s been another year full of adventure, fun, tears, hiking, arguing, drinking, love, driving, dining, and more for us. #RTXIX is in the books (or more literally on this website). We jumped into our dream of some day living in SW Colorado with both feet after finding the perfect property there. We’ve all […]
Read More The Spirit of DigginsWe have a rule that blogging is completely optional except for during the summer road trips where it becomes a daily requirement. However, Ellie decided to write about each day of our mini Thanksgiving trip this year and I decided that I couldn’t let her be the only one. I guess it’s just the nostalgia […]
Read More TTXIX (Thanksgiving Trip ’19)See I can see good things for you and IYeah good things for you and I The BoDeans We’re obviously in love with this place. We think we chose the perfect land. Our only wish now is that we had a place to shower and cook so we wouldn’t have to keep leaving for hotels […]
Read More Good ThingsSo in love with the falling earthOh you wake in the middle of the falling nightWith the summer playing coy Dispatch Molly mentioned today that as we get close to the end of the trip I seem to be getting reflective and a bit sad. She’s right, and of course she is as well. We […]
Read More Only The Wild OnesHigh, higher than the sunYou shoot me from a gunI need you to elevate me here U2 At least a little bit of elevation today, anyway! Before we get there though I need to backtrack a bit to yesterday and our arrival in Durango. We camped Monday night at CO Home, so woke up and […]
Read More ElevationThough it takes a lot of power To make a bog tree grow. It doesn’t need a pot of knowledge. For a seed knows what a seed must know. Paul McCartney Yet another 5 star day in SW Colorado. It’s just after nine now and we’re all settled into our tents. The last 15 minutes where a chaotic […]
Read More Off the GroundImagine all the people John Lennon We spent today at Mesa Verde NP, just a few miles from CO home. Zoe and I woke up early, 5:30, to pick up Ellie and Molly who had spent the night in the tent. From the entrance of Mesa Verde it was a 45ish minute drive to the […]
Read More ImagineI’m walking on sunshine (Wow!)And don’t it feel good Katrina and the Waves Either I’m getting really used to camping, or being at home was just the place for camping I needed, because I don’t remember waking up last night. I did wake up just a couple minutes before my alarm went off. I immediately […]
Read More Walking On SunshineSo I’m here in ColoradoPeace does not run shortLiving the freedom that I was made forYes I am unfinishedYes I am not doneStill it’s up here in the mountainsI defined my home CHAPPY We’re home in Colorado! The drive from Springville, UT took us about 6 hours. We did make a few stops in Moab […]
Read More ColoradoCome doused in mud Nirvana We were also soaked in sweatn and who knows what else, but after an awesome night in the Tetons we’re back in civilization. I somehow got my 2nd ever good night’s sleep camping last night. In fact, I was actually woken up by my alarm! We got packed quickly and […]
Read More Come As You Are