Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“dam . . . Otter Creek / and all the water backed up” – Live Today may go down as the best dam day of the entire trip. Although that isn’t saying a lot because I think it might be the only dam day. Last night we decided to use today mostly for recovery from […]
Read More … Dam … Otter Creek“There’s magic in 3/4 time, pace yourself and you’ll be fine. Slow and steady wins the race, it puts a smile there on her face.” – Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers Today we got to return to Bryce Canyon National Park, the park that made me first fall in love with the West. […]
Read More Women Like to Slow Dance“I have got to find the river Bergamot and Vetiver Run through my head and fall away Leave the road and memorize This life that pass before my eyes” – REM We decided to throw out the plan for today. Last time we were at Zion we hiked The Narrows of the Virgin River and […]
Read More Find The River“Take another road to a hiding place / Disappear without a trace / Take another road in another time” – Jimmy Buffett Although today was mostly a driving day, it had a memorable ending at Zion NP that makes it deserving of higher than the 3.5 mountains it earned in our road trip journal. We […]
Read More Take Another Road“Many precede and many will follow / A young girl’s dreams no longer hollow / It takes the shape of a place out west” – The Dixie Chicks I don’t think there’s any space more wide open than Grand Canyon National Park. Even the one star reviews acknowledge that it’s “. . . A big […]
Read More Wide Open Spaces“. . . fuck it, it was something to do . . .” – Mike Posner Another thing to do is visit four NPS sites in a single day. I started my day by doing laundry. Apparently I drew the short straw since Molly started hers with yoga and the girls went for an early […]
Read More I Took A Pill In Ibeza“. . . lonely water, won’t you let us wander / Let us hold each other” – James Bay After two weeks in the desert without a drop of water in sight (except for one thunderstorm and yesterday’s stop at Montezuma Well) we finally found a relative abundance of it. Despite some confusion on our […]
Read More Hold Back The River“I’ve been everywhere, man / Crossed the deserts bare, man / I’ve breathed the mountain air, man / Travel, I’ve had my share, man” – Johnny Cash Today was a day that seemed to go on forever (in a good way). We woke up in Tuscon, visited Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well, Tuzigoot, and ended up […]
Read More I’ve Been Everywhere“Ain’t never been nothing quite like this” – The Traveling Wilburys Out of habit more than anything we were all up before seven this morning. Zoe and Molly seemed almost eager to get out of bed to head downstairs and pick up our first cup of Kimpton coffee of the trip. We had a leisurely […]
Read More The Wilbury Twist“A brace of hope / A pride of innocence / And you would say something has gone wrong.” – Toad The Wet Sprocket At the very least something’s always wrong with Day 14. But I’ll come back to that in a bit. We woke early and had a last, tasty, breakfast at the Embassy Suites […]
Read More Something’s Always Wrong