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.

Pequeña Estrella
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Pequeña Estrella

We were up on the ridge, me with a little star in my pocket and the light of a cloudy, icy day in my eyes. But those eyes hadn’t seen the sky-stars in days.

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I Don’t Wanna
Beth Downing Beth Downing

I Don’t Wanna

Sometimes it's okay (nay, necessary) to eighty-six the adventure.

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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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