Road Trip Blog
I didn’t write the four days we spent in Yellowstone. I wanted to absorb the full impact of this huge park before I put my thoughts down on paper. Rangers had warned us that there would be a lot of driving and walking if we […]
“Mindful of different ways of being, Our awareness as a species shifts- We recognize the soul of the land as our own.” -Terry Tempest Williams Rainy days. They shift my mood, make me contemplative. After 18 glorious days, we have a little gloom. There is […]
One of the things I was looking forward to on this road trip was meeting people from all backgrounds. Initially, I had the idea that I wanted to have conversations with people and listen carefully. After all, we live in a contentious political time […]
“See how nature- trees, flowers, grass, grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, the sun…how they move in silence.” -Mother Teresa I was not raised to be comfortable in the great outdoors. We never went camping as a family, our only vacations were a […]
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” -Thoreau Bear Country. That’s all my inner voice kept repeating. Throughout the planning for this trip, nothing incited anxiety within more then the thought that we would be camping in Bear Country. I had nightmares. I […]
After leaving Custer State Park, we knew Devil’s Tower was only a few hours away, so once again we took the scenic road through Spearfish Canyon at the uppermost northwest corner of South Dakota. This gorge was a different geologic formation then what we had […]
And I’m not talking about bad habits or resentments. We are a few weeks into our journey now and as I mentioned before, space is at a premium. Mark has always been a fastidious packer, he prides himself on packing for two weeks trips in […]
Today was a particularly good day. What makes a perfectly good day when one is on the road for 90 days? Well… a leisurely morning for one, a morning where you don’t have to pack up camp or hit the trails early to beat the […]
Truly. I know that The Badlands National Park is a great American destination and all the adjectives and superlatives have been applied. They are indeed: otherworldly, eerie, forbidding, inhospitable, spiritual and alien. We spent two days here. The wind shifted direction and the heavy smoke […]
After a week of novice camping, I have learned a few important life lessons. Giant Queen Bees can sting you when flying in your car window at 60mph. It is comical only in retrospect. It’s a miracle we did not crash as I screamed […]