Clik here to view.
Weekly Walk 44
Six weeks after the summer solstice, and we got to hike in the rain! It didn’t even put a dent in the drought, but it did raise the level of the river a smidgen. The kids got to give their new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 45
Seven weeks after the summer solstice, and we’re back to full-on drought. I frequently brood about how difficult it is to live our ideals here in the suburbs. We’ve been a one-car family for thirteen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 46
Eight weeks after the summer solstice, we took my sister for a walk. I didn’t take any photos of my sister on our hike, though. In fact, I didn’t take any photos of her during her whole visit. My...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 47
Nine weeks after the summer solstice, and it’s still summer, although the season seems to be growing a little stale. Maybe “stale” isn’t quite the right word. Perhaps it’s more that the season is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 48
Ten weeks after the summer solstice, we took our friend Linda hiking again. Actually, since she drove us, it’s probably more accurate to say that she took us hiking. Except in our minds it’s our hike...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 49
On Labor Day, eleven weeks after the summer solstice, we took an afternoon family hike, my spouse, the two kids, and me. Always unsettled by changes in our schedule and irritated that after a month of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 50
We hiked our fiftieth hike twelve weeks after the summer solstice. Only two more to go until we’ve finished the full year, and only one more until astronomical autumn (unless we hike late this week, in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 51
On the autumnal equinox, in 85-degree, sunny weather, we took our fifty-first weekly walk. For the first time, we forgot hats. We’d had one very rainy day and one somewhat rainy day earlier in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Walk 52
Well, we did it. On a chilly, overcast morning a week after the autumnal equinox, we hit the trail with the tallest member of our family for our fifty-second walk. That designation—fifty-second...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 7
Las Cruces, New Mexico (where we took a morning hike at Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, pictured below) to Tucson, Arizona (where we met up with one of my friends I haven’t seen since...
View Article
