I can still hear it plain as day -- her urgent silence against the deafening roar of the falls -- and it chills me to the bone. I emerge from the swirling stream below the waterfall and see my sister-in-law Chris walking towards me... "Where is Dan?" I shout to her. Her mouth is moving, [...]
"If anybody is not blown away by the Grand Canyon, they won't be blown away by Judgement Day, either. To spend the night on rocks that have been warmed to 120 degrees by the sun, to feel the incredibly insistent and very dangerous Colorado River rush by you, to be down in the depths of [...]
Not too long ago I received a random, seemingly innocent text message from a good friend: "Hey, just wondering -- which Vegas chapel did you guys get married in?" Needless to say, it didn't take a huge mental leap to figure out something was up...I give full credit to my persuasive texting skills that, after [...]
I'd like to send out a great big "thank you!" to Rachel of The Penniless Traveler and Naveed Chaudhry of Lovely Shoots for nominating me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. I'm so happy you enjoy my posts and pics, and am flattered by your nomination...To everyone reading this, I highly recommend both Rachel's and [...]
I didn't breathe a word to anyone, but as we climbed down out of Pueblo Canyon, I was secretly thinking to myself, "there's NO WAY we're doing another hike tomorrow." The plan had been to tackle Pueblo Canyon, the harder and longer of the hikes, on day one, and follow up with a quick out-and-back [...]
It was a motley crew that set out from our house early Saturday morning. I had proposed a little expedition after reading an intriguing article about the Sierra Ancha in Arizona Highways magazine a few months prior and was really jazzed when a few people actually seemed serious about accompanying us. Aside from my husband [...]
I still have to pinch myself when I realize I've been married for three years. Not only has it been much more enjoyable than I ever anticipated, but the time has absolutely flown by! It's interesting to observe what type of 'married people' we're turning out to be. Being my first go-round (it's my husband's [...]
Christmas Eve Day dawned cold and crisp, and although our thin Phoenix blood had not yet adjusted to the 18-degree weather, we were enjoying the Christmas-y feeling so sadly denied us in the "Valley of the Sun" from whence we came. Before heading out of Albuquerque, we made a stop at the Indian Pueblo Cultural [...]
Our yearly New Mexico Christmas road trip started out the way it usually does...among a flurry of texts, emails and phone calls from friends asking if we had heard about the Winter Storm Warning. This year, along with the usual reports of a storm blowing through right as we were traveling, came urgent warnings that [...]
Two years...I can't believe it! My conviction that I wasn't the marrying type aside, I have to admit that even after three blissful (pre-marriage) years with my betrothed the thought of marriage was absolutely terrifying to me. Ruminating on the concept of my every day and every hour being lived out in the same space [...]
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