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Wild Perseverance – Walking with your Spouse into the Backcountry

I am basing this story off of the Verse in the Bible “Ecclesiastes 9:9 NLT[9] Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil.”. God brought my wife, Jessica,…

backpacking

  • On this occasion, Jessica and I were visiting family in El Paso, Texas. We had left the Grand Canyon for about two weeks. I asked Jess if we could go backpacking in Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The National Park that boasts the highest mountain in Texas! I had booked our Backcountry Permit on Recreation.gov and Read more

  • This adventure begins with Jessica and I leaving our home in the Grand Canyon for another backpacking trip.  This time our sites were on the Coronado National Forest down south.  Of course, this article does not take place down south, and I will get to that abrupt change of plans soon. After passing the Mazatzal Mountains Read more

  • Similar to the beginning of another story I wrote on here recently, Jess and I had planned to go to New Mexico. This time we actually did but hit a roadblock. My 2015 Jeep Cherokee after many years of kinship and adventurous travel finally began to have some large issues. Oliver the Jeep began to Read more

  • Dear reader, this story starts like many others that I have from this season of life. At the time I worked at Stovepipe Wells Village inside of Death Valley National Park in California. I was working many hours in a restaurant in the village and to save money I was exploring the endless mountain summits Read more

  • My Wife Jessica and I had planned to go to New Mexico and backpack. Due to the weather, we changed our sites to Great Basin National Park in Nevada.  The Photograph above is one of my favorite Photographs I have taken to date!  Jess came up with the composition!  The weather is notably better than Read more