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.

Pictured
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Pictured

The owl stitched us together: sitting on the shoulder of a child and being haltingly put together on a table on a humid afternoon in the flat city of my childhood.

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Time Traveler
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Time Traveler

You are a time traveler of your own life but it requires no complex magic, only riding the waves of memory as long as you can. When the time comes they break over your head, know that you’re getting to see your life in a way you never have before and never will again.

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