We've been doing a TON of fun cooking here in Taos! We're provided an amazing amount of staples and fresh food to feed the 5 of us volunteers living on the property, plus usually at least 1-2 meals a week cooked together as a team...

10 February, 2022 /

We're loving live here in New Mexico! It's been three weeks since we arrived at our new work-trade property, and we've been busy getting settled. First task was finishing some features on our provided trailer, nicknamed the Hemp Hut for it's use of hempcrete insulation!...

31 January, 2022 /

Friday Dec 24 - Jan 9 We spent the Christmas and New Year's holidays in Denver, thankfully getting to see some of my visiting family on Christmas Day -- and un-thankfully catching COVID somehow a few days later. We did our due diligence of tracing, but...

19 January, 2022 /

Thursday Dec 23 We woke up early on the upper rim of the Rio Grande Gorge outside Taos. The morning was quite frosty as low horizon cloud cover blocked the first light of the sun, but we still woke to a pleasant scene with a hot...

18 January, 2022 /

Wednesday Dec 15 I woke up early and decided to finish up some quick work things from the previous couple days. 2 hours later, I was cranky, irritated that we weren’t already on a trail and that things seemed to be taking longer all the time....

21 December, 2021 /

Monday Dec 13 We left Joshua Tree Monday morning without a real schedule or time frame beyond a loose plan for the next 11 days, and being back in Denver by Christmas Eve. We stopped at the Joshua Tree visitor’s center for some souvenirs, and then...

19 December, 2021 /

We left San Diego this past weekend, Saturday (Dec 11) morning - bound for Joshua Tree with my cousins Mike, Brian, their daughter Olivia, and two puppies. They have a built-out Sprinter van of their own - so it’s been extremely helpful hanging out with...

16 December, 2021 /