A conversation about being old with Steve Bechtel of ClimbStrong, aka, true climbing-nerd stuff In 2017 when Brian and I first went to Lander WY, […]
Things we lost in the fire
Or, the van is dead! Long live the van! Brian stayed home from church Sunday morning because he’s been ill and was still not feeling […]
Oren moved out
where I give a shout out to The Terrible Cough, The Move, The Camper Van, and Empty Nesting It’s been almost two weeks. He caught […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 3: Reconnaissance, or 5 things this trip taught us.
The word reconnaissance, when not used as a military term means, “preliminary surveying or research.” It has its roots in the French reconnaitre (recognize) and […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 2: Different than I remember
Vacations are the act of grabbing minutes and hours and days with both hands, stealing against the inevitability of time. Cold Tangerines About a year […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 1: 8 days to departure
We’re getting ready to go on a road trip. Less than two weeks to go now, and we’re already stressed to the ends of our […]
In consideration of home
There’s no need to go looking for home… unless you’re lost… from Staying Put, Scott Russell Sanders For a long time, I have been reluctant […]
Climber-mom-rant, a retrospective
Last year at this time, I was thinking about writing a big rant about about how my sons don’t want to climb or be climbers. […]
#brian&jen2.0
So, last week we bought another VW Eurovan. From 2009 until 2016, we owned a 2001 VW Eurovan Westphalia Weekender, and we loved it. I […]
