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.

Bent Aspens
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Bent Aspens

Social is not the same thing as connected, but there are parallels. If a creature is capable of thriving amongst its brethren, then what happens when that condition isn’t met?

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The Slow and the Fast
Beth Downing Beth Downing

The Slow and the Fast

Slow. I yell it, please slower. The fear is an amoeba sitting on my chest, coating my hands and tongue.

Fast. My descent feels so swift past all the moves I just made, zipping by all the places I thought I couldn’t go higher.

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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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