outdoors Tag

It’s Thursday morning December 18th. There are four or five inches of new snow, and a thousand reasons why I shouldn’t be in the lift line at 8:45a.m: The Christmas cards I haven’t sent, the stack of papers I haven’t graded, the emails I haven’t...

The mountains of Telluride beg visitors to play in them in the summer months. The endless trails lead those who are willing to follow up rocky peaks, across colorful meadows, and along clear rivers. But there can be one major obstacle for families who want...

Each time we travel we have a choice. We can be a tourist or a traveler. In my younger life I was always a traveler. I backpacked through South America, teaching English along the way, exchanging room and board for language lessons and trying my...