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Dam Packrafting
The sand was never ending. Each step was an effort and the grains of sand building up in my shoes were starting to press against my toes and the arches of my feet, grating between my heels and socks making walking highly uncomfortable. I gave a glance behind me. Meghan had her shoes off and…
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Boulder Memory Lane
I ended up back in Boulder on short notice. Family things. Stressful things. Of all the things we worry about in life, the ones with the biggest impact always seem to come from the proverbial left field. Down in Arizona, I had packed my car full of everything I hoped I’d need for the next…
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A Proper Moab Visit
It’s been a little while since I’ve lived in a house for any extended period of time. In fact, I think it’s coming on close to six years since it really feels like I packed up a car for a fun trip, went on the trip, and then came home to an indoor space. But…
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A Return to Writing
I have to admit, it feels really awkward, uncomfortable, weird to be writing here again. Aside from a handful of “creative” writing bits and bobs that I’ve done in a past couple of years, all of my word making has gone towards writing webpages for HVAC companies. Yes. That is, in fact, as exciting as…
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New Zealand: Part IV
Maybe we should have known better than to go to Wanaka over the Christmas/New Years break. Because well, we’d spent Christmas there last year, and we full on knew how crazy it got during the holiday season. When we got to Wanaka, I started taking pictures of these ducklings. One of the pictures corrupted my…
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New Zealand: Part III
Back to the town of Blackball after getting thoroughly epic’d by the Creasus-Moonlight Loop. It’s the home of the least expensive real estate on the West Coast and seemingly doesn’t seem to understand the tourism that the Great Walk is probably going to bring. (Seriously, if I were the investing type, I would buy here…
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New Zealand, Part II
Well, I’m discovering that I don’t have the memory of an elephant, and I forget things that I don’t want to forget. So I’m going to get back to writing things down. I’ve spent far too much time in the past two weeks looking back at old, old blog entries to remind myself of the…
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It’s good to be back in New Zealand
It’s our two week anniversary of being in New Zealand, and we’re wiling away our afternoon at the lovely Granity Pass hut, high up in the Marino Mountains. We could have made our way back down to our bikes after this morning’s summit of Mt Owen (home of Gollum and location of Moria in Lord…
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South To Tucson
We had a finite number of days left before a plane would take us down to New Zealand, away from short days and cold. Well, at least from short days. Originally, we weren’t going to head south this winter, but as the days started getting shorter, I found myself starting to count down the minutes…