In 2010 (before kids) Karen and I sailed from California to Australia, across the Pacific, the first half by ourselves and the second half with our friend and co-boat-owner Jon Haradon. We had a blog about that adventure (and a separate blog about the adventure of fixing up the boat
We returned to the Jemez mountains, to the same general vicinity just north of the Valle Caldera that we had camped over memorial day weekend earlier this summer. This time it was just the immediate family. We visited a spot that I knew about from running a SAR mission the
On Memorial-day weekend we camped with another family in the Jemez mountains just north of the Valle Caldera border. Although the straight-line distance is not very far from our house, the easiest access requires driving West to the valley, North and West of Abiqui, then back south into the mountains
Bolam pass is between Purgatory and Rico(?). Drive north from Durango, hang a left at the Purgatory ski area, drive past all the ski area bits and continue up and West out the Hermosa creek to the end of that valley, hang a right angle turn North and drive close
Down to bottom and back. Shuttle from Bright Angel TH to Kaibab TH before dawn, down kaibab then up bright angel. 18 mi, 4,500 ft, 6:40
This campsite out in the american springs area was surprisingly nice. We also found an impressive shelter that someone had built.
Since we’ve been homeschooling, I (Karen) have read a lot of books about the topic. I remember reading once about how art shouldn’t be “taught” or forced upon kids until at least third grade. Instead, you should spend all that time and energy you would otherwise devote to painting and
When it’s cold and snowy and the days are short, it can be challenging to get the boys adequate outdoor physical activity. They can drive us crazy, literally bouncing against the physical confines of the house and figuratively bouncing against Karen and my psyches… If you’re in a place where
(writing this 1/23/22 about a trip taken 12/27/16-1/5/17) Though this is obviously not in the southwest (or even the US), it’s nevertheless an awesome trip we slipped in between the parenting and I’m posting it here so I can look back on it and jog good memories. Many (most?) of
I’m adding this post in 2022 about a 2016 camping trip, just to get the pics and video archived. The Gauss’s joined us in their camper. I recall that we had to cut a tree off the approach road, about which we were all pretty psyched. Not least because there’s
Here I am in 2022, adding content for this trip from 2016. I recall being happy to hang out with adults, and also forgetting how to have an adult conversation. Karen stayed home with Bodie (5) and Jasper(3) and I joined new and old friends for a few days of
Another solo dad mission with just Bodie and Jasper, Karen stayed home with baby Emerson. Convinced another family to join me, and we spent lots of time under the tarp, and, as you can see from the pictures, the back of the car. They still had fun! The boys named
I’m writing this in 2023, trying to add these old trips into the blog, and my memory is hazy at best. Karen stayed home to experience some peace and quiet while I drove the boys to Moab and met up with a couple other families. It went extremely well, considering
When I was a boy I dreamed of exploring caves. We’re lucky to live in a place where I can take our boys to such things. This is at some random cliffside north of Los Alamos. We drove way down Rendija to the power station, took a left at Guaje
adding this post in 2022, as I work through my backlog of trips: Staveley and family joined us in Flagstaff in a rental house and we took the young boys on some adventures–those that were accessible to us, anyway. We hiked a lava tube, hiked down near sedona, and went
