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We made it back to Young just as Lily’s clutch was enjoying it’s final days on our trip. Ben noticed that it was going awhile back so he ordered the necessary parts to replace it. Once we made it back to his parents house the parts were ready and waiting for him to get down [...]

While we were in Southern Arizona Ben took me to see his old home. His family bought to a pistachio farm when Ben was 15 and he spent about three years living and farming there. When he lived there there was a full pond and bountiful garden. Sadly, when we came back, things were not [...]

Making it back to Arizona brought us back to familiar territory. Things got easier, we knew where to camp, where to climb, we even had friends that wanted to see us and generously offered beds, washers, driers, and showers! We took full advantage of this familiarity as soon as we arrived and did some climbing [...]

well we made it back to Arizona anyway. After about seven months on the road we made it back to our home base, good ol’ AZ!

Rock climbing is a strange sport. There is a lot of pain, discomfort, and generally crappy situations that climbers have to endure. Well, a certain breed of climbers choose to endure… and Erin and I are that breed of climbers. Again and again we choose to hike for hours and hours to reach climbs. We [...]

Some of you might think this shocking but actual caving is something I would never do. Why? Well, because I think it is just too dangerous and scary! I have seen movies about people who go caving, they crawl through impossible spaces, make their way through disgusting swampy water, have things cave in on them [...]

We made it to New Mexico, Land of Enchantment…and low populations. I was shocked when driving through Las Cruces (New Mexico’s second largest city) and found out they have less than 100,000 people living there! For such a beautiful, enchanting state, you would think more people would live there…or, then again, maybe that is exactly [...]

Just like Louisiana, we found art in Texas. Only the art we found here was just a little more funky. The first and coolest place we stopped (The ArtCar Museum) was recommended to me from a fellow teacher who I met in Nova Scotia. It is a small museum that features artists and forms of [...]

Everyone knows that when you go to New Orleans you party on Bourbon Street, right? Well, we went there but didn’t quite party. Actually while in both Louisiana and Texas the majority of our stops were art related. In Louisiana we went to the New Orleans Sculpture Park. It was filled with some really fun [...]

We made it to Louisiana and while we were here we went to Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter to eat some of their delicious beignets. A beignet is fried dough with “generous” amounts of powdered sugar…by generous I mean the bag they came in was half filled with powdered suger (you had to [...]