Hoop Trek Travel

In honor of my 10-year Utah anniversary today I decided to share this piece I wrote a while back as part of an assignment for Matador U. My hands, weary from the 24-hour drive, fumbled with the keys as I tried to unlock the door to my new home. The AmeriCorps director hooked me up [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to HoopTrekTravel – my new travel site dedicated to a life filled with ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, and HOOPING. Please jump right in and take a look at my American Adventure lifelist and hopefully you will be inspired to pen your own.  Found out why the name HoopTrekTravel and learn a little more about the Hoop [...]

I am up at 4:30 am this morning stiff and creaky as hell – it is so stuffy in this place I can’t breathe.  Today is the first morning waking inside after 2 weeks in the tent. I turn on the window air conditioner for some air and to drown out the noises of the [...]

I had planned on launching this blog a good month ago but I could not for the life of me come up with a darned name for the thing. I have another blog, the Dirtbag Writer, that I have been devoting to my journey from cube dweller to creative lifer, but I wanted to have [...]