39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – Where’s My Tooth?

39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – Where’s My Tooth?

Leaving Telluride, we took gravel through the mountains, along an awesome plateau meadow, having lunch near another creek before dropping down into relatively flat, plain landscape. We dipped through a canyon and found our way to our destination, a single wide trailer on an 800 acre cattle ranch in Dove Creek, CO, along the Colorado Utah border. This was another […]

39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – Colorado II

39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – Colorado II

With Crestone in our rear view, we headed northwest into the vast, flat, San Luis Valley before being squeezed out of the valley and back into the mountains. We started out on pavement today before picking up the gravel Marshall Pass road that goes over the continental divide. So far we have not seen rain on this trip, and as […]

39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – Colorado

39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – Colorado

He was born in the summer of his 27th yearComing home to a place he’d never been beforeHe left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born againYou might say he found a key for every door When he first came to the mountains his life was far awayOn the road and hanging by a songBut the string’s already […]

39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – The Flatlands

39 Days, 10 States, 2 Kids – The Flatlands

Waking up in Wichita, we were delighted that we were alive, and nothing terrible happened while we all slept in a stranger’s basement. Not yet settling into a routine, since it was our first morning on the road, the kids argued over muffins and argued more as we loaded back into Jethro to start our day of driving. They are […]