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.

The Crown
In the Wild, Me Beth Downing In the Wild, Me Beth Downing

The Crown

The Earth has seen this before and plenty more. It is me who has changed. It's me who has noticed the new arrangement of natural elements near my skin.

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Oh, The Light
In the Wild, Me Beth Downing In the Wild, Me Beth Downing

Oh, The Light

The foggy clouds from the valley have marched up to here. I am inside of them, these clouds that have touched the pine trees and the deeply fallen untracked snow and the weasels darting between the tree trunks and the icicles hanging from the craggy rocks.

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