Visiting Chiricahua National Monument | Hiking the Echo Canyon, Hailstone, Mushroom Rock, Inspiration Point, Big Balanced Rock, Heart of Rocks, and Lower Rhyolite Canyon Trails | October 2015 Recently, we visited Chiricahua National Monument for the 3rd time. As always, we were completely blown away from the views surrounding us, and we loved every minute…
We don’t usually do much to celebrate holidays. What most holidays mean to us is “a day off to go have an adventure!” However, they say that once you have kids, holidays suddenly become all about them, and this year that was so true. Halloween this year was all about Charlotte. Even when Curtis and…
My favorite part about this blog is that because I’ve documented so many adventures around Arizona, it’s getting to the point where I can direct anyone to this site and they can easily find things to do through the Arizona Travel Index. We’ve really gotten around the state and visited many tourist attractions, both popular and…
Our decision to request to move back to Arizona for the fall was based off of many reasons. The desire to be in a familiar place with people we knew, wanting to explore more of this beautiful state in its prime hiking season, and for Curtis, knowing who he’d be working for, to name a…
It’s been exceptionally rainy these past few weeks here in Tucson. We can appreciate the cooler, great-for-hiking temperatures that come with that, but it’s hard to get out and enjoy it when it rains every couple days! However, with the rain also comes epic looking clouds and a few rainbow sightings, so I’m not complaining. Last…
In honor of this new website, I thought today I’d share a little more background as to how it got its name. In case you’re wondering, yes, it does have to do with the song “Time in a Bottle” by Jim Croce. In the summer of 2009, Curtis and I were between our sophomore and…