walk with me down the trail

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.

Away We Stay: Suspension
In Town, Mothering Beth Downing In Town, Mothering Beth Downing

Away We Stay: Suspension

Even more than trusting the constancy of the solar system, is the trusting of their bodies - the confidence in connective tissue to move the way it has many times before. The recognition that it's best to just let loose (ish). It turns out the only way to fly again is to unfurl.

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Away We Stay: Elegance & Violence
In Town Beth Downing In Town Beth Downing

Away We Stay: Elegance & Violence

This is a game that is thoroughly elegant below the knees and unabashadly violent above them. These humans soar and dance and sidestep and sprint without not one iota of attention paid to what their skates are doing.

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