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.

Bisons & Bullets
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Bisons & Bullets

On a hill on an island with fewer than two hundred people on it, there was a sculpture of a bison with holes in it.

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Simple Vs. Easy
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Simple Vs. Easy

I discovered a few things on the trail, but the one that stood out the most was this: simple and easy are not the same. 

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The Blurs
Beth Downing Beth Downing

The Blurs

The steaming sand blurs the sea-to-sky horizon. The water floods over my feet, blurring the human-to-earth horizon. There is no cell phone signal so the movement of time has blurred the morning-to-afternoon horizon.

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Aloft and Ahead
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Aloft and Ahead

Time is different in the air, also more expansive. It must be something about my body being close to the clouds, about being suspended and propelled at the same time.

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