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.

A Potential Torpedo
Beth Downing Beth Downing

A Potential Torpedo

With a thump, it occurred to me that I might not finish even though I was in crawling distance.

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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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What We Won’t Know
Beth Downing Beth Downing

What We Won’t Know

All of us went up that hard trail, saw the world from an alpine bowl that held marmots and pikas and watermelon snow. We didn’t ask each other’s stories nor did we tell our own.

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