In the spring of 2017, I submitted a vacation request to use 120 hours of time off. I work as an EMT and work most holidays, so I’d accumulated several hundred hours of vacation time. I work nights, so planned for a last shift on Sunday, 8/27, and then hit the road sometime on Monday […]
On Tuesday morning, September 1st, I got off work at 7am and headed home, knowing that my next shift didn’t start until 3 weeks later on the 22nd (3 weeks!). I took a nap and woke up in the early afternoon, planning on leaving somewhere around 6-8pm. I still had to pack all of my […]
First, the pre-planning: I’ve been wanting to do this for years, since I saw a thread over on NAXJA about a guy from the midwest doing a long trip through parts of the southwest. Then, he moved to Grand Junction, CO and started posting photos every weekend about the trails he had wheeled and hiked. […]