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Started this post and list a couple weeks before we left the country. This may be the last night really camping in the van before we leave for NZ. I’m surprisingly sad. Drove by our old house in...
View ArticleEarthmover
We headed out of Wanaka through the long river valley. It was 51 km to the end of the road, our destination Mt Aspiring National Park. We bounced along the narrow unsealed road, fording streams,...
View ArticleThe Long Way Home
Leaving California in December we struggled to decide on our route home. We dreamed of hitting countless back country and cross country ski destinations across Utah and Colorado. We did pull off a...
View ArticleThe Hustle
Along the Boquillas Canyon Trail. “You going down to the canyon? asked the guy walking into the parking lot. He had come from the Boquillas Canyon Trail, the same one we were about to check out. “Yeah”...
View ArticleAction Sports Avalanche
For years now in all those where to live conversations, Steve’s constant refrain is, “I want to be able to do stuff right out my door.” Way back when before New Zealand, before winery work, when we...
View ArticleI Drank the Kool-Aid
As these shoes are well vented my feet end up even dirtier than my legs. I drank the Kool-Aid or perhaps in this case chugged it. “I drank the Kool-Aid” is our go to expression anytime someone gets...
View ArticleShout out to September
Looking out my kitchen window, distracted by the picture perfect snow covered pine trees beckoning just outside, it dawns on me that for the next five months or so I will eagerly embody every winter...
View ArticleTumbling
In the past year I’ve taken up downhill skiing and mountain biking. I blame the downhill skiing on this blog being abandoned for the past few months. All those long winter days just perfect for...
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