Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my dad wasn’t totally off base when he said, “Los Angeles is like San Diego’s older, uglier sister that has herpes.” – Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says L.A. was …
Trip of a Lifetime We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown…We have an unknown distance yet to run; an unknown river yet to explore. – John Wesley Powell A rafting trip through the Grand Canyon has been on my bucket list for about …
The High Rockies became home. We absolutely loved living in Summit County and are already feeling homesick for Breck. It’s definitely been a winter I will never forget from witnessing some of the world’s best athletes, to knocking things off my bucket list left and right, to hands-down experiencing the best …
People are constantly asking how we live in this… So I will finally address some of the more consistent questions we get asked. (For those of you who are only here for the photos, fear not, just scroll down.) FAQ: Q: How do you shower? A: We actually don’t shower. I …
More Denver I love Denver…what an excellent city. I always knew I was supposed to like Denver, because it’s the cool thing to do. But I never really knew. It’s the only city that’s smack dab in the middle of the country where I could absolutely, positively live. It’s like a big-city-breath-of-fresh-air in the …
Home for the rest of the year! “A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure.” -Czech Proverb Fort Collins Our first Colorado stop was Fort Collins…where we did a whole lotta beer drinkin’. We love good beer. We love good beer so much. And …
Grand Teton National Park: We got into our campground around 10PM on a Saturday. It was nothing but darkness and a thick blanket of stars. We fumbled our way around in the dark trying to get set up not knowing which way was was north or south. The lady that took …
Yellowstone, the first national park in the world. Home to one of the largest high-altitude lakes in North America. Acres upon acres of half of the world’s smoking and bubbling geothermal features. This place is gurgling, erupting, steaming, and sprawling. By sprawling, I mean 3,468.4 square miles of land, animal, and ecological …
2 hours west of The Badlands is the perfectly quaint town of Hill City, SD. As soon as we drove in I was enamored. Hill City is a Lincoln Log town amidst the Black Hills National Forest and it was our home for 5 nights (our longest stay in one …
“When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.” – Lakota Indian Proverb 18 days after leaving Richmond we officially made it to undisturbed nature and designated wilderness – 244,300 acres of it. It took until the day we left for the astonishment of our surroundings to wear …