Southwest Family Adventures

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