Fourth of July and Today

yesterday we celebrated the fourth of July all day so I’ll highlight some of the things we did. we sat on the balcony of the river all morning and played sevens and watched the “parade” which was a few rafts floating down the river. We headed to the Mancos brewery from Durango and ate some […]

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Creep

“Whatever makes you happy Whatever you want You’re so fuckin’ special I wish I was special” Radiohead This has been a rough year for keeping up with the blog for all of us. We very deliberately call our summer travels a trip and not a vacation because some days it is just a lot of […]

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the past week

So I haven’t posted in like a week so sorry for the shortage of harry styles pictures hopefully you were able to fulfill that necessity on your own. I don’t even remember the last time I wrote so I’ll just do a quick recap of the past week. We spent 2 days in Moab and […]

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Day 29

**Disclaimer if you live in Utah or in joy the state of Utah do not take anything I day in this post personally** I used to love the state of Utah and all I really remember from it is arches. I love arches. I was told that we were coming to salt lake city and […]

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Carefree Highway

“I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free” Gordon Lightfoot It’s been way too many days since I’ve written. Since I know the others have I’ll spare you the play-by-play and hit some highlights that I feel I can add my own insight into. Fischer Towers Hike – At the beginning of […]

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Day 28: Moab to Salt Lake City

These next few days have had many things considered as plans. First, we were going back to COhome. Then we thought it would be a good time to do some mountain hiking in Leadville. After checking the weather, we thought it might be better to push that off until later in the summer. We toyed […]

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Day 27: Fisher Towers

I officially fell in love again with the Moab area this visit. All our hikes were perfect, we found some good food, soaked up the decent temperatures, mixed in some relaxation with adventure, and got to see Ranger Mike. Our hike today was easy, but so lovely. We’ve done the hike before a few years […]

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Day 27

I woke up today the earliest I have this trip (I think) 6:45. Today we did the hike that we planned on doing yesterday but, ended up cancelling. The hike is called Fisher Tower and and if there’s one thing I learned it’s that I still don’t like ladders. The hike was cool because we […]

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Day 26

Today the alarm went off at 6 am thank god it did not wake me up because I don’t know what I would have done for the next hour. Once I was pulled out of bed a bit past seven I got ready and meet the rest of my family down stairs for breakfast. We […]

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A Little Bit of Everything

“‘Cause it’s a little bit of everything” Dawes We’d planned on doing a couple shorter hikes today, but as the rain settled in and Ellie pointed out that all of our muscles were still sore from the last few days we settled for just one. It was a good one though! We visited Morning Glory […]

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