Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
I can’t believe that after 40 days on the road we’ll be home in less than 24 hours. We have a bunch of reflection type posts planned so I’m not going to do that now. I will say though that it has been an amazing six weeks. We are all so lucky to be able […]
Read More Wake Me UpFor a day that was decidedly low key, it turned out to be a fun one. I’m not sure that this is worth a whole written-out-in-paragraphs blog post so here are the highlights: 1. As we were once again hanging out by the Kimpton Tideline’s pool I discovered that today was national ice cream day. […]
Read More Cake By The OceanWe are solidly into the vacation phase of RTXVI. In fact, we’re about halfway through it. It’s hard to believe that we’ll be home in just 5 days. I’m really not sure how we’re all going to handle the change! I didn’t blog yesterday because of Kimpton. We spent yesterday afternoon and this morning at […]
Read More Stacy’s MomI just read Mol’s post and she did a pretty nice job summing on the day so this post will probably be pretty brief. It was a very nice day in south Florida today. Amazing breakfast on the patio overlooking the ocean. Then swimming in the ocean. A Cuban diner for dinner. More swimming, but […]
Read More CaliforniaWe drove for 11 hours today. The first 9 went pretty smoothly, but there was a point at the start of the hour ten where I asked Mol half seriously if this was the spot where we should drop the girls off. It was a bit ironic because only about 15 minutes before we hit […]
Read More Stickshifts and SafetybeltsWe’re back in Illinois! After 31 days on the road we’re back to the state we live in. It was an awesome journey out west, so awesome that driving through suburban St. Louis was a bit unnerving. It was actually pretty weird recognizing every chain store. The trees and landscape could just as easily have […]
Read More Should’ve Said NoAfter a bit of a disappointing run in the mountains we made up for it today. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post our goal for the day was to make the summit of Mt. Bierstadt, and I’m happy to say that although it wasn’t easy, we made it! There was an awesome feeling of accomplishment […]
Read More In Da ClubAnother summit for the 4th! Even though it was a little one, being on top of a mountain is a pretty good way to celebrate the nation’s birthday. Without a doubt we set an UntanglingKnotts record for speed to a summit. We were up, down, and at brunch by 11! Here is our track and […]
Read More FireworkAs the alarm went off at 5:15 this morning I knew pretty much immediately that our Estes Cone hiking plans weren’t going to work out. The sky was overcast and the radar showed what we all knew was coming, a day full of rain. Luckily we had a backup plan so after laying around for […]
Read More Can’t Stop the Feeling!