Hoop Trek Travel

This video has haunted my thoughts ever since viewing it yesterday.  I am anxiously awaiting the appearance of my Moab iPhone App on iTunes and now I am wondering what Ed would have thought… I’ve devoured all of Edward Abbey’s books, but never once heard his voice until now.  Funny, his voice sounds exactly like [...]

I am a total defensive pessimist meaning I spend a lot of time worrying about all the things that can go wrong in any given situation.  This may sounds like a pretty crappy way to live (unless you too have a defensive pessimist qualities), but it is actually quite adaptive. In most cases, imagining the [...]

I have felt a little out of sorts lately.  The leaves are changing and early bird ski passes are available and I feel like I never had a summer. I didn’t grow basil on my windowsill, I didn’t get to see the series of wildflowers bloom on the running trails behind my house, and I [...]

Being the petroglyph aficionado that I am, a brochure for the Legend Rock State Petroglyph Area caught my eye outside the Thermopolis State Bath House.  I asked the bathhouse attendant how far away the petroglyph site was and he blatantly ignored me and just kept going about his business. I browsed the brochure a little [...]

Many travel bloggers have been reviewing boutique hotels and luxurious lodges on their blogs lately so I thought it would be fun if I started reviewing um some of the fabulous “eco-lodges” that I have been staying in.  Welcome to my new series… um fabulous nature lodges. Resting alongside the Popo Aggie River in a [...]

I woke early this morning in my tent in Canyonlands National Park to watch the sun rise through Mesa Arch.  As I watched the sun slowly creep over the rock and turn the sandstone blood red simultaneous feelings of grief and bliss washed over me and I spiraled into a state of internal reflection.  Exactly [...]