After last week’s extravaganza with snowshoes, we vowed our next visit to the canyon would be on cross-country skis, silently gliding up and down the mountain…or at least that’s how we envisioned it.  So, on Christmas Eve morning, we headed out, rented five pairs of cross-country skis, and Colton, Miara, Trent, Ben, and I headed […]

With winter now in full force, we’re having to get a little more creative about getting enough time outdoors, especially since I’m just not that into downhill skiing.  We’ve been out on a winter bike ride or two, but it seems like a shame not to enjoy the snow.         Yesterday we […]

Its been more than a year since we took a break from our circus class to give Ben a chance to focus on school, but now that he’s graduated, we’re back.  It took us a little while to get back into the swing of things again, but its been altogether fun. We’ve discovered Ben has […]

Upon wearing ourselves out stand up paddleboarding, we headed back up to the upper Iao Valley.  When we visited the Iao Needle earlier this week, we met a local who tipped up us off to some good swimming holes up the river.  Not wanting to miss out on the opportunity, we began scrambling up the […]

Happy birthday to me from Hawaii!  It has kind of thrown off my groove to be both warm and sunburned on both Thanksgiving and my birthday. Sad life, I know. The first thing on the agenda was to try out stand up paddleboarding. For those of you who do not know (like me a week […]

Ben: Our morning in Hana was spent in search of awesome beaches.  The first on the list was a red sand beach.  Hana has one of Maui’s most well-known beach of this variety, and given that it was supposed to be less than a half mile from our yurt, we decided to start there.  It […]