I cannot believe I have not dedicated a single post to the backpack love of my life. [I love backpacks] Maybe I can, maybe this is a metaphor for all the things we use and love and never recognize… Anyway this type of content now belongs on henry? Idk, this is the inside blogball of…
There are only a few stories of me being purposefully spiteful. Buckle in: We’re on a girls trip in oh-ten. We’ve skied all day (I yard-saled, but that is quite literally another post), have opened the wine and ordered the food, settling in to enjoy a cozy night in our friend’s parents’ condo in Portland.…
PACK YER BAGS We’re on a bit of an all-inclusive kick, even without drinking. It’s for when you just want easy, not adventure. Eyeing this really cute place run by sisters called Cedar Lakes Estate in the Hudson Valley, New York, but seems more geared toward events than small groups or a couple traveling. Also…
We’ve now had our lil cabin in Colorado for a year—hard to believe!—and are gearing up to spend the last two weeks of the year in that cozy, beautiful place. Here are the top ten things I’m looking forward to doing in the wonderful little town of Idaho Springs. Note: this doesn’t include skiing (Loveland!)…
Technically my sixth, as I missed SBST V with a torn achilles. BUT IT WAS AWESOME, AS ALWAYS, so that’s what we’re going to focus on here. Y’all, Oregon has been gatekeeping, and I’m pretty sure it’s to protect the powder stashes. Mt. Bachelor is one of the biggest mountains in the US, with INCREDIBLE…
I would never leave you hanging! I’m so funny. In my Travel Bags are My Lumens Research List, I mentioned a new-to-me concept of the hanging toiletry bag. Y’all. HOW DID I EVER LIVE WITHOUT THIS? It is epic. It is organized. You can see all your things. You can hang it and leave your…
“It is a delightful thing, while the great sea rages, to watch from the land another struggling with the waves: not because this is in itself a delight; yet it is a delight to watch calamities from which you feel yourself safe. So to look on a battle from some safe point of view. But nothing is more delightful than, from some serene stronghold of knowledge, to look down upon the wanderings and errors of other men, and their efforts after mere wealth and power, rather than knowledge and a quiet mind.” The first words of the opening of the second book of the Latin poet Lucretius, De Rerum Nalura. We found these words on the wall of a cantina called Tropico 56 in Merida, Mexico, where the driver we hired for the day on the recommendation of a man we met outside of a bathroom who said I look like I spoke English used to be the manager, en…
When I moved away from Austin, it was noticeable when the airport that felt like home changed: first to Aspen, then to John Wayne. And even when I moved back, it took a bit for ABIA to feel like home. But now it does, again. Still, grateful for my amazing trip to OC to celebrate…
To try to put into words what it feels like to be welcomed into a whole other family, as part of it, as if I was never not, is impossible. My brother, his fiancee, and I are a bit of a family unit already, and going to Rio and being welcomed into her family as…
Happy Juneteenth. Here’s my text summary: It’s the “ending” day of slavery in the US … after the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation, Texas ? still didn’t free slaves until June 19 a couple years later so that’s when it’s celebrated. More and more companies are recognizing the day as a way to celebrate Black…