In the last three months, we’ve done dozens of hikes in five mountain states. You’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for the comprehensive report on achievements in the first 100 days of our trip (such an artificial benchmark, I know, but the pundits insist!). In the meantime, I’d …
Kayaking is one of my favorite activities, so I thought I should share the agonies and ecstasies of our kayaking experience so far.
I have always wanted to kayak in the western states. So, in the months leading up to our trip, I was calculating how we could spend some …
We arrived in Colorado just over a month ago, on June 10. As the map of our travels on our homepage shows, we circled the western two-thirds of the state hitting some of the highlights but missing many, many more. During the month, we were rarely under a mile above …
After seven weeks on the road, we have seen a lot of toilets, those essential but under-appreciated devices that collect and dispose of our biological waste, without which we’d all live shorter and more brutish lives.
I have been a fan of toilets for a long time, even before living …
We’ve been focusing our trip principally around visiting national parks. Since we made a beeline for Utah after visiting Elise in Albuquerque, we were able to visit a slew of parks relatively quickly. Rather than write a separate blog about each one, I thought I’d just give a brief recap …
Some of our friends have reported that they are no longer receiving notifications when we post a new blog. I guess that’s the downside of learning how to manage a website without proper training… I probably deleted the function by accident while updating one of the features. In any case, …
18,000 cfs. That’s cubic feet per second, measured at the river gauge in Green River, Utah. It didn’t mean much to a couple of easterners new to the Green River—and hankering for a river trip—but we learned that it means the river is carrying a lot of water, and fast. …
We are WAY behind on our blogging! I am going to blame a general lack of wifi, but also (speaking for myself) using a computer feels out of synch with our outdoor lifestyle. After a long hike, sitting around the campfire, who wants to fire up a laptop?
After leaving …
We pitched our tent on a sandy beach of Lake Powell, just over the Utah state line on Thursday, May 11, and slowed our pace of travel. We had decided to blast across the country quickly in order to arrive in Utah by mid-May, ahead of the really hot weather.
We left Albuquerque about mid-day on Tuesday heading to Canyon de Chelly in the northeast corner of Arizona. Canyon de Chelly, on the Navajo reservation, was the most-mentioned must-visit destination at our going away parties last month. It is a national monument run by the Navajo nation, who operate a …