Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica is an excellent opportunity to study what things must have been like in Rome.

Travel and Arrival

We calculated that we had been awake (or poorly dozing here and there) for around 31 hours before we had access to a bed.

We did the PTC!

The Belle Brigade is a relay team of walkers made up of women military veterans.

Graduation and other updates

I am so late in telling you, but Tara graduated from college!!! Yes, in June my kiddo received their Bachelor of Science in Geology. I am very very proud of my baby for sticking with it and doing all the work to make it happen in the end. It took six years and there is […]

Goat Lake and Jordan Basin

It was our last day and I pushed through the pain in my feet to keep going.

Smoky Old Snowy

See that? No, you don’t, because of the smoke.

PCT and Cispus Pass

On our second day we continued to climb in elevation and into the heart of the Goat Rocks Wilderness.

Return to the mountains

The trailhead is at about 4000 feet elevation and we climbed about 1700 feet that day in only 4.5 miles.

Into the smoke and out again

My brother told me that the skies over Montana have been swathed in wildfire smoke for a long time.

Bruce and Nephew

The speed at which she was ready to take me up on my offer and the multiple times she double-checked, “Do you really mean it?” let me know that I had offered a real gift.