Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
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. […]
Read More Let Me GoI 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 […]
Read More Keep Driving“And it stoned me to my soul / Stoned me just like goin’ home” – Van Morrison No, we’re not in Colorado yet, but today we did visit Petrified Forest National Park! Our first stop of the day though, was the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site. We woke up at our last National Park […]
Read More And It Stoned Me“North Country winters keep a-getting me down . . . I ain’t turning back to living that old life no more” – Old Crow Medicine Show Day 24 and we’re over halfway gone. Sad to think that three weeks from now this will all just be memories. As a bit of consolation I did make […]
Read More Wagon Wheel“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“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