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When I originally contemplated my first extended vacation in 17 years, I had thought I would hit the ground running… literally… with athletic goals including but not limited to hiking very long distances, and climbing as hard as I could. The reality, however, is that after all that packing, and change and emotions, all I’ve […]

Now that I’ve basically left everything and every one I know (with the exception of my beloved husband… he’s coming with me!) I’ll be using this blog as a way to share my upcoming adventures. Big life changes always come with a mixture of emotions, and so it was with my last days at my […]

I took the opportunity during a recent trip to Vegas to explore the Mojave and make it to the amazing Kelso Dunes.  These dunes are unique in the fact that they are one of only 35 dunes in the world that are “singing dunes”.  They actually reverberate as sand slides down the dune against stationary sand […]

The ghost town of Grafton, first settled in 1859, lies just outside of the town of Rockville, UT near Zion National Park.  I went in October as part of a larger trip to Zion, and Arizona.  The surrounding landscape and the abandoned buildings gave me only a taste of how hard life actually was when […]