by toby | May 22, 2013 | Life
When Facebook friends meet in a ghost town in Utah. Wednesday May 22, 2013 Two weeks. Two weeks is how long it took for me to forget how to put on makeup. Today was our “mellow day”—all we had planned was a scenic couple-of-hour-roundtrip drive up to Kolob Reservoir...
by toby | May 21, 2013 | Life
Back in the Promised Land of Zion May 21, 2013 Wednesday (Not gonna lie. One of the fun things about Zion is using all the grandiose names the Mormons gave the park in my titles) Yesterday when we finally rolled into Zion National Park after early morning dawn shoot...
by toby | May 20, 2013 | Life
Off the deck and into the wild: counting the cost at Bryce Canyon 5/20/13, Bryce Canyon I’ve been saving my quarters for the next Laundromat Adventure, and yesterday tried to pick one up on the asphalt of a gas station going out of Zion toward Bryce, our next...
by toby | May 18, 2013 | Life
Off the deck and into the wild: canyoneering Zion Evening May 18 Saturday? Unsure We begged four different times at Zion Lodge for a room for another night, but even Mike batting his big blues didn’t work and we couldn’t bear to leave this amazing park, so much as yet...
by toby | May 18, 2013 | Life
Forgot this one! Whoops! South Rim of the Grand Canyon, 5/15/13 Lipan Point We found the “perfect” spot. Great views, and no people. Of course, we have a perilous hike over the guardrail and along a cliff (it’s not climbing the rocks that scares me, it’s the...
by toby | May 17, 2013 | Life
Off the deck and into the wild–life on the edge of the Grand Canyon 5/16/13 Travel day to North Rim of the Grand Canyon I’ve become Camping Woman. Camping Woman with the wind-snarled hair filled with dust, ten broken dirt-encrusted nails and unshaven legs,...