Driving to Moab...

We decided to drive to Moab via a small town called Dinosaur, it took us 12 hours and we had a blast. Here are some of the memories we gathered along the way:

- pumping our own "gas" for the first time

- spotting a UFO house

- seeing the snow topped mountains in the distance

- driving into the snow-topped mountains

- juggling snow

- barefoot yoga in the snow

- laughing at the odd signs on the side of the road
- improving our ability to photograph them while driving
- seeing our first real trailer park
- feeling snowflakes fall on our faces (a life dream of mine)
- watching the landscape change dramatically
- having lunch in a local sports bar of a small town
- going through towns with names shared with friends

 


- Searching for dinosaurs in Dinosaur
- spotting a sticker on a car reading: "cowgirl up"
- reaching Utah

Yoga pose of the day

- best jump of the day

Boulder: the Highs and not so...

Boulder is a great student town and very friendly. Here are some highs and not-so-highs from our time there:

- having to use a Tyrolean to get to the climbing 

- the 100s of tulips along the main walkway 

- freezing while climbing

- trying some local beers at Mountain Sun

- hiking to the base of the Flatirons 

- leaving some skin on the rock 

- getting carded and kicked out of 2 bars because Dee's drivers wasn't accepted (low for her, high for me)

- ringing in my birthday with some live music by Eric the Viking 

- climbing in the sun while looking over the pine forests

- taking time to smell the flowers

- yoga with the tulips

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Denver - the highs and not-so-highs

- Getting a birthday discount and free GPS from a friendly National Car Hire elf

- Finding an appropriate name for our "mobile home" for the next month - "Red Rocket"

- Finding all the shops we wanted thanks to "Round-about Robin" (aka our GPS)

- Shopping, shopping, shopping....(highlight for us, not so highlight for the bank)

- More yoga poses and jumps (i need to jump off something 'cos this white girl can't jump)

- Attending a yoga class (then leaving the yoga mat behind)

- Listening to some live music 

- Finding some good food 

- getting all citied-out (partly due to spending a night in a not-so-nice hostel, aka "crack-den")

- attempting to go climbing only to be stopped by my unwillingness to cross an ice-cold river (Dez was much braver - seriously, my toes were numb before they hit the bottom)

- driving through the spectacular mountains where we found a massive eye-sore of a casino and then some wonderful snow! YAY

Travelers diary - High and not-so-high lights of London

Let the adventure begin. 

We've been on our 1 month trip in the States for a few days now so here are some of our high and not-so-high lights:

- yoga poses in the airport

- watching Desiree sleep on the flight to London (highlight for her, not-so-highlight for me)  

- getting a 1 day visa in London from a tired customs official (we should not have been allowed in)

- walking around a quiet London 

- wondering what the time is while looking at Big Ben

- finding a pub and drinking pear cider (yum)

The earth delights

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I will not die an unlived life

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

Dawna Markova, American renowned educator, researcher, psychotherapist, and author

Do it anyway

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