walk with me down the trail

For two years, we lived in a tent trailer while traveling the American West. To document the kind of adventure I’d never have again, I wrote our stories.

We’ve left the RV life for now, but these weekly vignettes still explore adventure’s ups and downs, our relationship with the outdoors, the wonderful disaster of parenting, and the struggle to catch lightening in the creative bottle.

Beth Downing 11/19/24 Beth Downing 11/19/24

I Don’t Wanna

Sometimes it's okay (nay, necessary) to eighty-six the adventure.

Beth Downing 11/12/24 Beth Downing 11/12/24

Pictured

The owl stitched us together: sitting on the shoulder of a child and being haltingly put together on a table on a humid afternoon in the flat city of my childhood.