Two minutes now saves hours later A no-brainer on the Canyon is to spend two minutes checking ropes and tie-downs before running any rapids. There are horror stories of tie-downs that weren’t checked. The raft flips in a rapid and the entire contents of, say, a kitchen box are lost to the river. On a […]
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Make Some Room Chapter Two (Keep up)
It is easier to keep up than to catch up. Admittedly, the part of my Grand Canyon trip that I found least appealing was packing and unpacking the boats each day. The set up and tear down routines took time, effort, and coordination. Especially at the beginning of the trip, I struggled to carry […]
Make Some Room Chapter One (Your brain)
Make Some Room Chapter One: Your brain is not for remembering. “Never memorize something you can look up.” Albert Einstein My group of 16 brave souls floated, rowed, and paddled the emerald waters of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon for 16 days. We covered 225 river miles (plus many more miles of hiking on […]
Make Some Room – The Introduction
Make Some Room: Powerful Life Lessons Inspired by an Epic 16-day Colorado River Rafting Trip Through Grand Canyon Introduction In June of 2013, my husband Nelson and I spent 16 days rafting 225 miles of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon. Having never done a trip like this before, I wasn’t really sure what to […]
Making Stuff Up
A couple weeks ago, my hubby and I had the crazy awesome pleasure of watching a few talented musicians do their thing. Mike Guggino and Mike Ashworth are of Steep Canyon Rangers fame and were joined by musicians/singer songwriter Sarah Siskind and Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters. There were AMAZING and put on a […]
Regret vs. Possibility
I want to talk about regret versus possibility…see, my husband Nelson and I are dreamers (and doers). We talk a lot about things we want to do and places we want to go. We talk about who we want to be next and where we want to live next. And then, we get what I […]