Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Today got off to a fabulous start and has just stayed on that track. Shortly after waking up I got a Taco Cat T-shirt for Father’s Day! After just a few more minutes I got a nice breakfast on the patio of the hotel. Then we only had to drive 10 minutes rather than the […]
Read More Piece of My HeartWe woke up this morning in one of the coolest places I’ve ever woken up: in the middle of the desert. We wanted to get an early start on the day since the forecast was for temperatures to be nearing 100 degrees by noon. Our alarms went off at 5 and I was up and […]
Read More Way Down We GoBest hike so far. I’ve loved Bryce Canyon since the first time I saw it back in 2010. The landscape is unlike anything anywhere. Even Cedar Breaks, which is remarkably similar, is lacking in hoodoos and hikeable trails. Today’s 14 mile journey through the entire northern part of the park was one of the coolest […]
Read More The DistanceToday was a very strenuous day. It was hot, sweaty, and hard. But once again all the views were five stars. We saw beautiful hoogie thingies. We got to go inside them. We hiked up, down, all around. We saw chipmunks digging, picking flowers. Oh the beautiful sights of them. We saw black and white […]
Read More The Eighth DayWe woke up a bit on the late side this morning. Our plan had been to wake up bright and early to begin heading south. I heard water dripping and thought the hotel was leaking. Realizing that was stupid I thought it odd that we could hear someone else taking a shower. Realizing that was […]
Read More BrightFor some reason I’ve never really been capable of sleeping in. This morning was one of the few really lazy ones that we allotted ourselves, but for some reason my internal alarm still went off bright and early at 6:30. I made the best of it though by sneaking down to the lobby to read […]
Read More Like A PrayerWhat an amazing day at Timpanogos Cave National Monument! We arrived a bit early for our 10:15 reservation and as soon as we walked through the door were greeted by a ranger with a clear love of and passion for his work. He recruited Zoe and Ellie into the junior ranger program and they dutifully […]
Read More The CaveToday we woke up in a Holiday Inn Express and we’re going to bed in a beautiful Kimpton. Today we did a 4 mile hike. We went in a cave. The way up we hiked alone. When we got to the top we met a ranger and they took us inside a cave. They told […]
Read More The 6th DayWhat a mixed bag of luck today was for me. Things started off beautifully with a more leisurely morning at the hotel. We took some time to sleep in, repack our gear, and enjoy the surprisingly good Holiday Inn biscuits and gravy. The first trouble hit as I was making our regular lunch and I […]
Read More Carry OnIt’s been a crazy last 24 hours! After writing our blog posts from Echo Park last night we started getting ourselves ready for bed. Since we’re not really campers we really didn’t know what we were doing, but we did manage to improvise a pretty good evening. One of the highlights was warming up brats […]
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