On Wednesday Joe and I had what was probably our favorite day in Yangshuo. We had a restful morning – slept in, showered and got ready for the day, answered a few emails, ate lunch at a local restaurant, and headed to West Street. A few days earlier we’d met two 18 year old guys […]
It’s hard to believe that Guilin, China could ever feel so much like home. Our plane landed in Shanghai less than a week ago and I am already in love with this place. We have some favorite restaurants, a good handful of friends that we see everyday, and a hotel room that is beginning to […]
Written on February 27: I’m up late tonight getting really excited about our trip to China. We leave in two days! We fly out of Philly to Chicago early morning on February 29th, then we catch a 15 hour flight to Shanghai. We will spend the night there and then fly from Shanghai to the […]
Joe and I have been planning to take an extended adventure this spring for the last year. Almost every night we sit up in bed and read a chapter of one of our marriage books, chat about our day, and dream about where we’d like to go next. Until just a few weeks ago our […]
One of my fondest early memories of Ann was on a backcountry climbing trip in Wyoming. That trip ignited our love story. We found ourselves laying out in our sleeping bags on thick mountain grass, counting shooting stars one evening. How fun it was to enjoy them together. Sometimes they would clear the entire sky. I […]
I could feel my heart pounding inside my chest as we set up the rappel. Because the distance from summit to the notch that connected the spire to the wall was so far down we had to tie multiple ropes together for the descent. There were lots of stories of people dying on this route […]
After our Christmas rendezvous in West Yellowstone, Joe and I continued on to Jackson, WY to spend a couple more days with his family. Joe’s brother Mike lived in Jackson many years ago, and so he knew of all the favorite local places to snowmobile. Mike suggested to Joe and I that we make a […]
When most people hear Yellowstone they think of going to Wyoming to see geothermic features, buffalo, and bears. However, West Yellowstone is a town in Montana on the border of the national park that is famous for one thing: snowmobiling! It’s a town where they groom their roads instead of plow them. Elementary school students […]
Things have sure been exciting since Joe and I left Texas. We spent the holiday making fresh tracks on snowmobiles and spending time with our families. Ironically, one of my favorite memories on the trip wasn’t snowmobiling or opening Joe’s presents, but skate skiing with my mom on the world-famous Rendezvous trail in West Yellowstone. […]
I can hardly believe it. Tomorrow is already Thanksgiving and Christmas is right around the corner. Just last week it seemed as if I were preparing to graduate from college, and now I’m married and living in Texas. Wow, how the time flies. Although I love spring and summer (mostly because I spend the majority […]
I’ve been married now for five months and I still don’t have a clue how my wife’s mind works. She can go from loving me one minute to being emotionally empty the next, from exciting to be around to downright depressing. It can sometimes be a roller coaster ride, and it always catches me completely […]
My favorite spot was at the very front. I loved to close my eyes, just barely, and feel the wind dancing through my hair and the sun warming my body. My brother was munching on black licorice and untangling the rope. My dad was standing behind the wheel, like a true captain, and my mom, in her wide […]
So many adventures come to mind when I think about the time I’ve spent with the Bakers. I have often had the privilege of being a part of their Wild Love Story. The first time I ever really spent a good amount of time with Joe was in 2007 when Ann and I were moving […]
One of my finest memories was crossing the Continental Divide in Colorado. The Outback was packed so tight that all you could see in the rear view mirror was a giant mound of climbing and camping gear. We were headed for Yosemite Valley. My girlfriend’s hair was blowing in the wind as I passed a […]
By guest writer Chris Lierheimer I got a call from Joe saying he would be in Longmont to skydive with Ann in a week. I was happy at the chance to see them again, and to jump with them of course. We had met and become good friends at the dropzone. I knew they were […]
