The Wilbury Twist

“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 […]

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Something’s Always Wrong

“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 […]

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All I Do Is Win

“All I do is win win win no matter what.” – DJ Kahled It’s only 8:30 here in Tucson, but the girls are all in bed and I’ll be right behind as soon as I type up today’s adventure. The reason for the early bedtime was our early alarm this morning. At 4:30 we were […]

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Try Not to Breathe

“I have seen things that you will never see” – REM Although today seemed a bit like cheating since we only hiked 4 miles, we made up for the lack of mileage with some awesome sights! Of course, the Saguaro cacti that Saguaro National Park is named for are amazing. They towered over us as […]

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From Eden

“Babe, there’s something wretched about this / Something so precious about this / Oh what a sin” – Hozier Another day, another NPS site visit! Today we hit the Coronado National Memorial which sits on the north side of the Arizona / Mexico border. We’d be planning on a quick visit to Coronado Cave and […]

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I’m Too Sexy

“I’m too sexy / Too sexy for my shirt / So sexy it hurts.” – Right Said Fred Day 10 has brought us to Bisbee, Arizona. This isn’t a place that I knew existed a couple days ago. But it does, and we’re here now. Last night we decided to roll with our decision to […]

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Like A Prayer

“Life is a mystery . . . It’s like a little prayer . . . I wanna take you there” – Madonna Wow, what a day Day 9 has been! Since the the area is finally getting some much needed rain we were forced to improvise a bit, but it sure did turn into an […]

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