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Once we left the PCT, we wondered where to go. What could we do that didn't require Mike to walk too much while his knee rested? We left...

We boarded the Greyhound bus this morning in Phoenix to take us to the beginning of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Unfortunately you...

We've now said goodbye to Texas and are headed north and west again into New Mexico. Our first stop is White Sands National Monument. ...

Meet Big Tex. He is a 55-foot tall talking statue and marketing icon of the annual State Fair of Texas. Since 1952 Big Tex has served as...

Oklahoma... nothing at all like the 1955 musical movie!! Sometimes when I'm in Texas I feel as though I've been living in a bubble. We...

Up until this trip I only had one memory of New Mexico… waking up to see the sun rise over the desert. My friend Stephanie from college...

~ Mesa Arch ~ Utah has big shoes to fill. Mike and I are in love with Colorado... not the cost to live there, but the State itself. We...

Our first 14,000-footer... more about this later... The Fort Collins Budweiser Brewery opened in 1988. It was the first brewery in Fort...

We arrived back on the mainland in Canada. One of the things that we did not have time to do before we left Nova Scotia en route to...

This is what people say at the visitors' center in Newfoundland. Just to put it in perspective, this is the equivalent of seeing...