Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
High, 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 AreIf these are life’s lessons, she’ll take this test. Dixie Chicks We saved an awesome hike for the last backpacking trip of #RTXIX! I’m sure this day will go down in the book as another five mountain day. It started early at the Old Faithful Inn where the gyser right outside our window erupted just […]
Read More Wide Open Spaces (Day 41)This was never the way I plannedNot my intention Katy Perry We had another change of plans today and decided to hike Mt. Washburn. We’ve actually done this hike previously when we were here four years ago. It’s also now the first mountain that we can say we’ve summited twice! The hike up is pretty […]
Read More I Kissed A Girl (Day 40)Lookin’ for that bottle, old number seven. Horseshoes and Hand Grenades We’d been planning on doing a huge 20 mile hike today to the Shoshone geothermal area, the biggest backcountry collection of gysers in Yellowstone. However, we forgot bug spray, and after fighting off hordes of mosquitoes for the first two and a half miles […]
Read More Whiskey (Day 39)Let me slip away on you. Gordon Lightfoot Today was another big driving day – eight hours. I woke up early and enjoyed having enough internet to make my posts from the last couple days and reading a bit of news. Once everyone else was up we hit the road pretty quickly. Our first stop […]
Read More Carefree Highway (Day 38)