Author: Zak

Salida, CO

For the first 12 hours of today I drove from Omaha to Salida. I stopped for gas three times. I tried to stop at Starbucks, but the line was crazy long so I didn’t even park the car. I did finish HHGTTG and listened to some music and news. It worked out that I was […]

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Summer 23

All the Knotts are going to make a noble effort at blogging the summer of ’23 and I’m kicking it off tonight. It’s going to be a different summer than many of the past years. To start, there is no road trip. From now ’til mid-July we’ll be Mancos based. The second half of summer […]

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Forget Responsibility

We could climb another mountain, or just drink another beer. Clyde Sparklehoof It’s already July 10th and somehow it took us until today to summit our first mountain of the year. It was a good one though, Centennial Peak, our first summit in the La Platas (finally!). We’d hiked from the Sharkstooth trail head before […]

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Stairway to Heaven

there are two paths you can go by Led Zeppelin It turns out Moab is just a day trip from Mancos. The girls did it on spring break last year, but doing it today made it seem much more realistic. I thought we’d be home late, but we made it back in the late afternoon […]

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Lookin’ Out My Back Door

Just got home from Illinois Lock the front door, oh boy Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch. CCR Lots of things have happened since I last wrote over a week ago. Friends visited Mancos, we visited those same friends at their house, we went to Chicago, we stayed at a Kimpton. […]

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Let Me Go

And I’ve waited for her for so long I’ve waited for her for so long I’ve wondered if I could hang on I’ve wondered if I could hang on, yeah CAKE I didn’t expect to be in Mancos tonight, but here I am. We started the morning early, a 5:30 AM alarm woke us up. […]

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How Do You Talk To An Angel

It’s like trying to catch a falling star The Heights Phew, what a day! We woke up at Bryce Canyon, loaded up Fred and were on the road before 8 this morning. The destination was Zion NP. The two hour drive was relatively easy except for my credit card being locked in a gas pump […]

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Drunk On A Plane

We had this date marked on the calendar forever. Dierks Bentley We did a SUPER hike today! Bryce Canyon has always been one of my favorite national parks and today was no exception. We started the morning slowly: slept in a bit, drank some coffee, got the gear packed. We were on the trail before […]

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Keep Driving

I would ask, “Should we just keep driving?” Maple syrup, coffee Harry Styles Today was the first absolutely positively normal old-school road trip day! It was a little bit weird leaving life in Colorado for a mini-vacation to Utah. Packing up last night was much less of an experience than packing for a full summer […]

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