The Watchtower

Lakes Basin Big Bear Lake

Trailhead We parked our truck about a mile away at the trailhead and ambled down the wide path that leads into the Lake’s Basin Recreation Area. For being only eight years old, my daughter, Allyona aka “Ocho” can send a trail. She walks with a lightness of heart and a happiness that comes from being […]

Moab, I can’t stop thinking about you.

woman climbing a rock

Sometimes a place captures your soul. Our family finds happiness anywhere we are together but some places stand out as extraordinary. Our week in Moab keeps floating back to the top of my mind. We lived for free on BLM land. Luckily with our generator, we could charge our batteries for an hour or so […]

Rock Lake, California

On the ledge “It’s not the height,” I yelled. “It’s the cold water that I’m working up to.” No one believed me. I didn’t believe myself. I had taken off my socks and shoes and wedged them into a cranny on the rock face. My bare feet curved around a textured bulge of granite jutting […]