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 Unsummit
Beth Downing Beth Downing

The Unsummit

How quickly that gift of pushing on becomes a stone to carry.

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Carry You
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Carry You

They were voluntarily taking additional weight of items they never intended for themselves, only hoping that their kits might be useful to someone else.

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The Damn Bridge
Beth Downing Beth Downing

The Damn Bridge

Onward. I take fifty audibly squishy steps and then glance towards the river, and laugh out loud.

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