Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Before getting to today’s hike I think dinner last night deserves a small description. We were seated at a table with a young couple from Lithuania and a young single guy from Virginia who now lives in Dubai. The first course was a delicious risotto served from a giant pot rolled from table to table […]
Read More TMB Stage 4Things finally started getting interesting on the trail today. Days 1 and 2 were pretty typical hiking days for me. They were beautiful and they were steps toward the much bigger goal. Today was that as well, but it was also more of the adventure I was hoping for. We all slept poorly last night. […]
Read More TMB Phase 3Tonight we’re writing from L’Auberge de la Nova. The plan was for Molly and I to have a glass of wine while we did this, but the “town” we’re in is too small to have a place that sells glasses of wine. So we had to settle for buying the entire bottle, at 12€ that […]
Read More TMB Stage 2The day we’ve been anticipating for years finally arrived! This morning we woke up early, 6 AM. We got in a quick cafe at the hotel, checked our bags, and caught the 7:00 bus to Les Houches. It wasn’t long, maybe 10 minutes until we made our first stop at a bakery for breakfast. After […]
Read More TMB Stage 1Tomorrow is the start of our hike! It got pretty real today as we made our way from Chamonix to Les Houches, the unofficial starting point of the TMB. We even bought a paper map of the route at the visitor’s center. This afternoon we doubled checked all the gear. I removed each item from […]
Read More Day 4: Les HouchesWhen planning this trip we had originally intended we would fly in today, then some things happened and we decided it made sense to come earlier. That change meant that we were able to spend today in Chamonix! Backtracking just slightly, we also had a delightful evening here last night. We intended to go out […]
Read More Day 3: ChamonixWhat a whirlwind the last day (or 3? it’s been hard to track time) has been! We left Chicago late Monday night and I’m writing this from a bus to Chamonix, FR on Wednesday evening. I’m not going to do a play by play, but I will hit the highlights starting with last night’s dinner. […]
Read More Chicago to GenevaI’d first like to point out that I am doing (at least in my own opinion) quite well at blogging. Take note girls! Saturday was the Dolores River Festival and, just as there were last year, some great bands were in the lineup. When I was here in March I got to see Birds of […]
Read More Dolores River Festival, Sunday, and Wrapping Up ProjectsIt’s been a busy couple days in Mancos. Mostly I’ve been working around the house. The ladders and railings for the bunks are nearly finished. Unfortunately, I failed to take into account how thick the fittings for the pipe I’m building with were so I had to order a few replacement pieces that I have […]
Read More Projects and Dolores River Fest VolunteeringI hope anyone following the blog took my promise to “make a noble effort” at blogging at face value and didn’t get their hopes for daily posts up too much. It’s been a busy three days since I got here so I’ll hit the highlights and cut out the fluff of filling up on gas […]
Read More It’s Good to be Home in Mancos