Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“To be part of the miracles you see in every hour / You’ll know it’s true that you are blessed and lucky” – 10,000 Maniacs Day 26 of RTXVIII was an unexpectedly busy and great one. It actually started a bit slowly. We were able to sleep in a bit since our first destination of […]
Read More These Are The Days“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 […]
Read More I’m Too Sexy“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 […]
Read More Like A Prayer“‘Cause I need freedom now and I need to know how; To live my life as it’s meant to be” – Mumford & Sons We must have hit the part of the trip where we all need a little down time. As soon as we arrived at our hotel in Alamogordo, NM we decided that […]
Read More The Cave“She’s touring the facilities” – Cake We completed our tour of Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas today! I’m the last person to write today, so I’ve already read what the girls have written and I think I need to clarify my attitude toward today’s hike. As I’ve written all along my biggest concern […]
Read More Short Skirt / Long Jacket“I’m on my way; Driving at ninety down those country lanes; Singing to ‘Tiny Dance’” – Ed Sheeran With only one NPS site on the agenda for today it seems like it should have been a low key day. Since that one site had a visitor’s center as well as three other units and we […]
Read More Castle on the Hill“I got that sunshine in my pocket Got that good soul in my feet” – Justin Timberlake Today’s stop, Bandelier National Monument, was one of those parks that left me wanting more. As I mentioned a couple days ago our original plan to backpack here had to be nixed due to the high fire danger. […]
Read More Can’t Stop The Feeling!“Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you” – Gordon Lightfoot With three NPS sites in one day, day three of RTXVIII was absolutely packed. Molly and I are sitting by a lovely pool on a lovely night outside Santa Fe, NM, but I’m exhausted so I’m going to do my best to […]
Read More Carefree Highway“… I find holy redemption When I put this car in drive Roll the windows down and turn up the dial” -Maren Morris Can I get a Hallelujah, an Amen? Today deserves one of each. Even though it was eight and a half hours of driving, today started actually feeling like RTXVIII. Maybe my Kansas […]
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