'Life is too short to be anything other than happy.'-Buddy Holly After a VERY busy few months, I finally had a weekend day off to hit a trail. In West Texas, my season for hiking is very short. I am surrounded by a desert landscape so hiking much of the year within a 12 hour … Continue reading Adventures in Texas: Big Spring State Park
'I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.' – Rosalia de Castro When I was planning my holiday road trip, I had never heard of Cathedral Canyon. As I scoped various tour companies for Upper Antelope Canyon, Antelope Slot Canyon Tours … Continue reading Adventures in the American West: Cathedral Canyon
'No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.'–Alex Honnold Zion National Park was the first stop of my quest to visit the Mighty 5 and, boy, did it not disappoint! A few things … Continue reading Adventures in Utah: Zion National Park
'You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.'-Fredrik Backman Things I have learned this summer...summer in Bend lasts about three weeks and during those weeks, it hovers around a hundred degrees. It's a Catch-22 because I've discovered that I need more weeks of it being warm but that it allows … Continue reading Adventures in Oregon: Mirror Lake
'Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical … Continue reading Adventures in Oregon: Tumalo Falls