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Wonder Lake Campground – One of the Best Places to Sleep Ever
There we were, in a yellow school bus bumping down the Denali Park Road headed towards the Wonder Lake campground....
Just a Darn Good Day Paddling near Telluride
One of my favorite new things to do in the summer is paddle board!! When we first got ours, about a year or two ago,...
Le Grand Raid
I felt my foot slip out from under me and completely off the trail. The rest of my body quickly followed suit. As I hung there, dangling, clinging to a small tree, my feet finding no purchase, all I could think was, why am I still holding on? It was maybe mile sixty...
Favorite Place: Family Cabin
In thinking about the Favorite Place challenge, I thought immediately about this humble little place in the Rockies. The roots that bind me to this little old miner's cabin near Boulder, CO run very deep. My father's family has been in the Boulder area since the...
HIKING THE NARROWS!!! Everyone Has to Do this One!!!
Maybe you can tell by the generous use of exclamation points and ALL CAPS in the title, I loved every minute of hiking the Narrows. I can't say it enough, this is one of the coolest, most beautiful, jaw-dropping adventures I have ever experienced. I am not sure how...
Fat Biking Adventure at Devil’s Thumb Ranch: Keeping the Wheels Rolling in the Winter
Due to the lack of snow for most of this winter in Colorado, our fat bikes have been sadly collecting dust in our garage. Every time I would drive in to the garage, I would see my neglected, forlorn fat bike. It was making me nuts that I couldn't ride it. Finally,...
My Life Bus is Out of the Ditch and Rolling Again
Well hello world! Somewhere along the way, a few years ago which I can hardly believe, my Life Bus careened off the road and into the ditch where it has unfortunately stayed, growing weeds around it all the while. Somehow I allowed myself to lose sight, and control,...
Four Days in Tennessee
Coordinating a transcontinental reunion is about as challenging as it sounds. It was Laura’s idea. She’d been looking into the Cummins Fall Marathon pretty much since we’d gotten back from Cuba. 2016 was not to be, at least for me. Four international vacations had...
Rock Climbing Italian Style
The biggest challenge with the whole language barrier is, when someone says something that doesn't entirely make sense, deciding if one should laugh, ask for clarification, or offer up a withering glare. For example, when I asked the bus driver which stop was for my...
The Marabana
Somehow, I never really connected that Cuba is a third world country. That changed before I ever left Miami. Which was about twelve hours late. I'm not sure what time we were supposed to leave originally--some say the flight was originally scheduled for 11am, which...
Switzerland and Italy – Part Due
It was fitting that the one day it rained, my friend Linda left to head back to reality. It wasn't fun to bid her farewell, but she had a family to be with and I had mountains to climb. It was equally good timing with my trip. A forced rest day between adventures....