Ever feel overwhelmed by the uncertainty of the future? Here are some good places to start creating some natural resiliency in your life: Know which weeds you can safely eat – and how to prepare them. Learn some basic skills – cooking, mending, tying knots, dressing appropriately for your climate. Reduce your needs for heating…
Author: Kristina Hicks-Hamblin
Fascinated by the intersections between human health, the microbiome, and plants, Kristina writes about gardening and houseplants by day, and explores microbial connections by night.
Food Sensitivities: What’s Causing Them
You’re here because you are interested in upping your chance of surviving to a ripe old age. Well, you can’t survive if you don’t know what you can – safely – eat. If you suffer from food sensitivities – like I do – it can be extremely helpful to have a big picture view of…
Knot Tying Skills – What to Know and Why
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Low Tech Homekeeping Hacks
Living in the uncertain world that we live in, one of the things you may want to do to prepare yourself is to lessen your reliance on electricity. If you go ahead and start thinking about this now, you’ll already have a lower need for the nasty stuff (electricity). And then if the day arrives…
Edible Weeds: Blue Mustard
I have been craving sauteed greens lately – and as our stocks of frozen spinach have started to disappear, I’ve been thinking about what’s in the garden. Not the plants we are growing, however, but the weeds coming up between our rows. We ate lots of wild lettuce last year, so I went out to…
The Rough Edges
If life is a long quest to perfection inevitably bound to disappoint why not cut losses early on? The rough edges can show us where we’ve been, remind us where we’re going. And tell everyone hey – it’s okay.
Recipe: Homemade Gluten-Free Cherry Pie
Last summer, shortly after our move back from Oregon, Chad and I had one of the best welcome home presents ever. Our sour cherry trees were covered with fruit and the birds weren’t eating them yet. Years before, Chad had planted a few small cherry saplings – volunteers from his dad’s orchard – shortly after…
Garden to Campside
Last year we went on a short road trip to Montana. We made sure to take some of our garden produce with us to use as we stopped over at campsites on our trip. Taking the Garden Camping Chad had thinned our carrot beds so we had a harvest of lots of small, adorable little…
Garden News: Summer’s Harvests – 2019
Winter seems like a good time to look back at the past year’s summer bounty and see what did well for us out here in the high desert. Here are some of the highlights: ‘Lemon Boy’ tomatoes. I’m trying to keep my acidic food intake low and these tomatoes are great. They are low acid…
Homekeeping: Non-Toxic Plants for Indoor Air Quality
You may have heard that you can improve your indoor air quality by adding houseplants to your home. While they won’t get rid of mold according to research from Nasa they can help remove some chemicals from your air. If you have dogs or cats, you’ll want to make sure that the houseplants you choose are…
Garden News: Winter Seed Catalogs and Garden Planning
My spirits tend to get low during the winter – the post-holiday blues, gloomy weather, and reduced outdoors time always get to me. Winter here in NE Utah is long, but I have something to cheer me up and carry me through: seed catalogs and garden planning. By mid-January, there’s a stack of seed catalogs…
Food Issues: When Food Was Making Me Sick
About 15 years ago, things were bad. I’d come home after work nearly every day holding my stomach, collapse on the bed, and writhe in pain. When my stomach wasn’t bothering me, I might be having a migraine, the storm taking its merry time to pass through my head. One night I woke up in…
Celebrations: New Year’s Gratitude
Christmas is over, the New Year is suddenly here. Weeks ago, urges to declare the many ways I intend to improve myself started tugging at my brain. Writing some resolutions sounded like a good idea, until I started thinking about it. This end of the year ritual can sometimes feel like an obligation and other…
Celebrations: Remembering Nelly Bean
Losing my cat Nelly was painful, but not as painful as the suffering she dealt with. I’ll always be grateful for her feline companionship.
The Truth about Being a Building Biologist
How I became a Building Biologist, a niche profession focused on some contentious environmental health issues.
Homekeeping: Why Do I Have Mold?
Understand why you have mold in order to get rid of it That musty smell, those unsightly splotches… could it be MOLD? Should you be concerned? And what should you do about it? If you, poor thing, are dealing with a mold problem, it will be a big help to you in the long run…
Recipe: Gluten-Free Sourdough Pancakes
Life-Changing Two-Ingredient Pancakes How many times have you wanted pancakes but didn’t have a mix on hand? This recipe will show you that you’ll never need to buy a pancake mix again – gluten-free or not. Really. I make my pancakes with only TWO ingredients: eggs and sourdough starter. You can use either gluten-free sourdough…
Recipe: Make Your Own Milk Kefir
How to make your own milk kefir Knowing how to ferment foods is an excellent homesteading skill whether you’re living on a small farm, in a city apartment, or somewhere in between. Knowing how to ferment will empower you to make your own nutrient and probiotic-rich foods, help save you money, and is also just…
Food Issues: Vegetarian – To Be Or Not To Be?
Why I Embraced Vegetarianism… And Why I Gave It Up One evening as a young teen I was babysitting for some family friends. The baby was safe and sound in bed and all I had to do was eat my dinner and peruse a pile of magazines. I happened upon a blurb about Madonna being…
Garden News: First Bean Harvest of Summer – 2019
Growing heirloom snap beans This spring as I planned our garden, I wanted to make sure we planned heavy on produce that would get us through the winter – including lots of winter squash and dry beans. After Chad and I reviewed my plan, we realized that it was VERY bean heavy,
Garden News: Harvesting Apricots – 2019
Harvesting Apricots in July in Utah We have one mature apricot tree on our property. Mostly every year it blooms a bit early, then a frost comes along and kills all the blossoms off, knocking them to the ground, meaning that there will be no apricots for us. When we noticed the tree covered in…
Recipes: How to Make Fermented Sauerkraut
Make Your Own Homemade Sauerkraut Making homemade fermented sauerkraut used to scare me. Along with the fear of botulism, I was also confused and unsure how to proceed. I really wanted to try to make this delicious, pro-biotic-rich condiment, but was utterly lacking in confidence.
Native Plants: Elkweed
On a recent hike I was excited to discover a plant I was unfamiliar with. For those of you who grew up in the Western US, you probably are familiar with this meadow-dwelling plant. I had never seen it until recently and spent quite a lot of time getting some close up looks of its…
Travel: Nevada Solitude
Driving through Nevada it’s easy to believe
Tips: One Way To Fight Stress
I’m one of those people who gets stressed out easily, as much as I hate to admit it. I practice yoga, try to eat a healthy diet, exercise, and have positive relationships, yet I still do not do well with stress. I am a sensitive person and seem to be more prone to the ill…
Travel: Perspective in Death Valley
Death Valley is many places. They all provide perspective. March 2018.
Light, Shadow and Texture
Canyon wall at Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada. March 2018.
Tips: How to Keep Track of Your Plantings in a Permaculture Garden
Keeping Track Of What You Plant In Your Garden A few years ago I excitedly planted several varieties of snap beans and dry beans in the same section of the garden. At the time of planting, I marked the different varieties with wooden markers, so I didn’t think I’d have any problem knowing which was…
Travel: Yurt Camping in Goblin Valley
When yurt camping in Goblin Valley, the sun and clouds provide a constant show. March 2018.
Good Things to Come
Howdy friends! After trying out life in Oregon for the better part of a year, we have returned to the Uintah Basin. Living in Oregon was an interesting experience – we met a lot of warm, welcoming folks, saw a lot of huge trees, and didn’t get as much rain
Quotes: Allowing Nature to Return
“Although it would be highly arrogant of us to think we could actually design ecosystems, we believe that we can create a balanced ecological agricultural landscape by allowing nature to return to the land.” – Darrel Frey in Bioshelter Market Garden
A Miserable Hike that Makes You Feel A Lot Better
Fellow hikers, does this sound familiar? I have certainly been there. Usually I love hiking. Being outdoors, observing the plants and animals, pondering the geology and topography – these things just make me happy. But occasionally I find myself on a hike that I’m not really enjoying in the moment. Maybe the weather is miserable…
Quotes: Rooted in the Land
“One cannot predict what a long-term sustainable future will look like. But we believe it will be rooted in the land. It will come as an organic outgrowth of a rekindled, dynamic relationship between people and their landscape.” – Darrel Frey in Bioshelter Market Garden
Recipe: Winter Squash Potage
“Potage” is a French word used to describe a soup. While living in France I learned that the term “potage” referred to the type of pureed soup that I’m cooking here. Others call this a “veloute.” Whatever you call it, I find it utterly delicious – showcasing the flavor of whatever vegetable you use –…
Quotes: Set Points from the Natural World
“Our nervous systems are built to resonate with set points derived from the natural world.” – Florence Williams, The Nature Fix
Homekeeping: Improving Air Quality for Multi Pet Households
Are you one of those kind souls, too? One who has an undisclosed number of dogs or cats as co-residents of your home? If so then, like me, you probably catch yourself saying, “How can all that hair be on the floor? I just swept yesterday!” While the floor may be the thing that catches…
Quotes: Solutions in Cultural and Ecological Systems
Permaculture attempts to find solutions in cultural and ecological systems…
Hikes: Elliott State Forest, Oregon
Over the weekend we went hiking in the Elliott State Forest. Taking a break from normal life to get some exercise, look at some exceedingly tall trees, and marvel at the lush environment here did us both much good. We walked along an old overgrown road which made for a nice walk up along the…
Homekeeping: Let In Some Fresh Air
Open your windows to let in fresh air and you will get a brain and body boost. This is the easiest thing you can do…
Quotes: Nature for Calm and Focus
“Compared with people who have lousy window views, those who can see trees and grass have been shown to recover faster in hospitals, perform better in school, and even display less violent behavior in neighborhoods where it’s common. Such results jibe with experimental studies of the central nervous system. Measurements of stress hormones, respiration, heart…
Celebrations: Alternative Christmas Traditions
Even those of us who don’t celebrate Christmas for religious reasons might still choose to enjoy the festivities of the season. At this time of year I enjoy taking some time to read about the pagan roots that lie behind our Christmas traditions. Since these roots came from rituals honoring Nature, it seems like a…
Our Ancient and Long-Standing Debt
“Although tragically diminished, the natural world that made us is out there still. With effort and some passing luck, we might find our own way of reconnecting, and in doing so, learn to honor our ancient and long-standing debt to life on earth.” – Graeme Gibin, The Bedside Book of Beasts
Homekeeping: Good and Bad Smells in the Home
When most people think about bad smells they think about potty smells and body odors. That’s probably because these things embarrass us culturally. But when indoors today, we are more likely to be assaulted by a different type of offensive odor – that created by chemicals.
Recipe: Gluten Free Sourdough Starter
Most of us have probably heard that fermented foods are healthy for us, increasing the biodiversity in our microbiomes. Fermentation is also an exciting way to see nature at work – seeing an inert mixture develop bubbles and start to smell heavenly is a fun science lesson and provides a tasty cooking ingredient.
The Resonance We Need
“How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs.” – Ludwig van Beethoven, 1808
Nature: Love is a Two Way Street
Author, Professor, Botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer asked her students this question one day: You love nature but do you think that nature loves you back? Her students, all very respectful of the earth, had never thought about it that way. I bet most of us haven’t either!
Homekeeping: The Difference a Window Makes
Consider the exterior doors on your home. Are they solid or do they provide views to the outdoors? Even a small window like this half circle window in an otherwise solid door provides a view to the backyard, lets in a bit of natural daylight, and provides information about weather and time of day. As…
Celebrations: Tribute to my Mom
Tomorrow, November 21st, is my mother’s birthday. I thought I would share some of my favorite memories of my mom – Julie Doppel Hicks – and some of the reasons that I think she’s an amazing person. Here are just a few of them! My mom took time to read to me when I was…
Hikes: A Walk In A Wild Oregon Forest
This afternoon Chad and I found ourselves in a wild forest full of towering trees, a multitude of mushrooms, and glowing autumn leaves. And when I say we found ourselves there, I mean that we got back to some integral, essential part of who each of us are, and who we are as a couple. Not…
Homekeeping: Let In the Light
There is no more powerful element to create beauty and mood in a space than natural daylight.
Homekeeping: Make a Stress-free Space
If you aren’t quite ready to make your entire home a healing, rejuvenating refuge, can you at least give yourself one small space?
Homekeeping: When You Don’t Have a View…
When the space is challenged with no windows, create the illusion of view with art work that depicts a nature scene. Green soothes…
Cultivate Patience
One of the lessons of Permaculture is to first of all, observe. In other words, be patient and survey the scene before you take action. This is something I personally struggle with since I get very excited and enthusiastic about new ideas. While I do like observing, sometimes the patience part just gets away from me….
Homekeeping: What’s Your View?
When arranging your home or workspace, don’t forget to consider what your view is going to be. The ideal view will depend on what the space is used for. If you are setting up a home office or work station, you will want something that is pleasant but not distracting.
Travel: Cape Blanco Cabin Camping and a Farewell
Back in May, Chad and I traveled through Oregon and made a stop at Cape Blanco State Park, on the coast. We arrived at the park in early evening to a cool and cloudy 53 degrees. The campground is nestled into a forest populated mainly by giant, spooky looking Sitka Spruce trees. The forest is dense…
Harley hikes Sheep Creek Canyon
We spent a weekend in the Flaming Gorge area recently and took a drive to one of my favorite places in this part of the state, the Sheep Creek Canyon Geological Area, also known as Sheep Creek Canyon Loop. Chad took me here on one of my first visits to Utah and I was awed by the fascinating geology. So I was looking forward to returning – this time under a beautiful blue sky and bringing our dogs along with us…
Head in the clouds
All of us need reasons to relax. Life gets wound up and so do we. Sometimes the only reminder we need is something awe-inspiring from Nature to lower our heart rate a bit and take the edge off of the stress. Chad has an eye for noticing these moments, and also for capturing them –…
Foraging: Why Eat Wild Food?
Getting to Know Plants My first gardening experience came when I was a teenager. Back then “gardening” for me was an after school job at a small, family-owned garden center, lugging around a heavy, interminable garden hose to water, section by section, the herbs, the perennials, the shrubs, and the flats of annuals. Out alone…
Travel: Idaho Sheepherder Wagon
One of the most interesting spots we’ve stayed in during our travels together was in a little sheepherder wagon in Idaho. We were on our way to the zone of Totality during the 2017 Eclipse, and this ended up being a nice stopover on the way to our destination. And yes, everything else was already…
Homekeeping: Intentional Spending Plan
As mentioned here before, Chad and I try to be creative about what we do for our weekly date night. The beginning of a new year always feels like a great time to do a life assessment, so we sat down together just after the turn of the year to discuss our goals for 2018…
Hikes: Ouray Badlands
I’ve been intrigued with badlands since learning about them at work, enchanted by aerial views of land forms I couldn’t quite figure out but was eager to get a closer look at. I finally got a much closer look when we went to Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, a place known for its wetlands and migratory birds, to hike on the badlandy hills there.
Hikes: Yellow Flower Desert Pinnacle
When Chad and I need a quick hike, this is our new favorite location, the place we call Yellow Flower Desert. We discovered this area, just off of one of our major highways, several months ago and were enchanted at how quickly we were able to get to fun hiking terrain. When we went this…
Garden News: Polyculture Garden in Late Summer
On this last day of August the days are still hot and I find myself longing for fall. The garden is producing beautifully, and everything seems as if it will keep on going this way forever. But I try to remember not to take things for granted – the last warm days, the bounty of…
Travel: Wickliffe Mounds, Kentucky
Our last side-trip on our way to Nashville was a prehistoric site in Kentucky, the Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site. Chad did most of the work looking for sightseeing stops for us on our trip and he did a great job coming up with good variety…
Travel: Driving through Missouri and Illinois
Taking a long cross country trip has its good sides and its bad sides. On the less comfortable side, it can be hard to stay seated all day long. You get to that point where you forget about it for awhile and then you make a stop, get out of the car and realize how stiff you are, what a relief it is to stretch…
Travel: Mark Twain State Park
We stayed the night in a cabin at the Mark Twain State Park. We got in a little late and may have woken up some fellow campers which I felt bad about but c’est la vie. It’s pretty cool that many campgrounds offer a few cabins for those who don’t want the full blown camping experience of sleeping in a tent…
Travel: Driving through Nebraska
Driving through Nebraska brought some very Nebraska-esque sites, like covered wagons. And then there was the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument. Quite a surprise when you’re not expecting a giant archway over the interstate!
Travel: Pony Express Station In Gothenburg Nebraska
Our next destination was the Pony Express Station in the town of Gothenburg, Nebraska. It was nestled into a cute little neighborhood with historic craftsman houses. I enjoyed seeing different types of residential neighborhoods throughout our trip, and this was one of the cutest ones…
Travel: Driving through Wyoming
We passed a giant oil refinery somewhere outside of Rawlins…
Travel: Rawlins, Wyoming
Part of the reason we picked the motel we did in Wyoming was that it had an interesting cliff behind it. It was a Rodeway Inn – looked like a motel on the outside, felt more like a hotel on the inside. The last motel we had stayed in together was kind of gross – it smelled like smoke and was a little dingy – so we were relieved that this one was pretty comfortable. And it matched my car…
Travel: Salt Lake City, Utah to Rawlins, Wyoming
This summer Chad and I set out on an 11 day road trip, driving to Nashville and back. No, we weren’t going to check out the Country Music capital of the world, we were just going to a family reunion. We thought we’d make a vacation out of it rather than just fly in for a day and a half and then fly back…
Hikes: Yellow Flower Desert
It’s really amazing how spending some time outside can make you feel so good. Spending time outside in an amazing new location is even more invigorating, refreshing and revitalizing. We decided to take a late afternoon hike the other day and couldn’t quite find the right place. One place we tried was surrounded by massive…
Gardening: Composting in the Desert
Anyone who gardens or simply cooks a lot of vegetables quickly finds out – you must have a compost pile! Vegetable waste translates into useful fertilizer and soil very quickly if you compost, so it is a huge waste NOT to create some composting system – not to mention the cost of buying bags of…
Homesteading: Sheepy Poos
When my husband introduced me to his two icelandic sheep, I asked what their names were. He looked slightly embarrassed and told me he hadn’t named them. Strangely, two names instantly came to me, and I asked if I could use them. He kindly acquiesced. So let me introduce you to two of the biggest contributors to…
Gardening: Desert Garden Design
Over the past ten years or so my husband has been planting a fairly traditional garden. Each year he tills the ground with a tractor then digs out rows to plant his seeds and transplants. With my visions of permaculture I of course wasn’t satisfied with this approach. Tilling with a tractor compresses the soil and also…
Gardening: Gardening in the Desert
Contrary to what you might think, people can and do garden in the desert. However there are certain obstacles to overcome that those of you in more clement areas won’t have to worry much about. For one thing, we only get about 7 inches of rain a year here. Yes, a YEAR. Back in NC…
Travel: Shiprock New Mexico
Last year on our trek across the country, we took a detour to go see Shiprock. This plan came about one day on our trip while Chad was studying the map. He said something like, “One possibility if we go through New Mexico would be to stop and see Shiprock.” I’m sure my eyes lit…
Garden News: Cold Frame Conundrum
I have four cold frames that I made using plastic storage bins and two more that use glass with the thermal mass of bricks and stone. These are experimental and so far I’m seeing some clear differences in the results. The seeds started in the thermal mass cold frames are thriving and growing much more quickly than…
Skiing in the Desest
Now that winter seems to be over I can finally write about it. I’m not one of those people who loves winter (and that’s putting it nicely). Chad on the other hand, IS one of those people. And he loves to go out cross-country skiing, and yes, I admit, I have come to love it too…
Books: Permaculture A Designer’s Manual
All you permies out there have surely at least heard of Bill Mollison’s monumental tome, Permaculture A Designer’s Manual. I have been eyeing it for years but always ended up buying other permaculture books instead. Two thinks put me off about buying this book, its price (upwards of $100) and its monumentalness. Maybe I just…
Garden News: New Cold Frame
Me and my sweetie went a little crazy ordering seeds a couple of weeks ago. When we combined households last year our seed collections expanded dramatically! I added a lot of perennials, herbs and flowers to the mix, he brought a ton of tomatoes, peppers and squash. But somehow, it seemed we still needed more seeds. And…
Taking the Plunge
After several years of dabbling in permaculture and dreaming of taking a permaculture design course, I am finally committing myself to an online certification program, the one started by Bill Mollison, no less. Although taking an in person, on-site course at a permaculture learning center is extremely enticing, I won’t be able to take 2…
Date Night
Date night. That means dinner and a movie for a couple who already has their relationship well cemented, right? That’s what I used to think. I will admit, I used to think that it was a little sad to have to rely on date night for a couple to spend time together. Then I met Chad and…
Hikes: Desert Wash in the Land Between
Why would you want to go out hiking in a place where there are no trails, no other hikers, and probably no signs of civilization at all? I never asked myself that question before meeting Chad, because going out hiking on trails was a rare enough treat and reprieve from my place in the noise…
Hikes: Autumn Outing in the Ashley National Forest
Getting out of the house and into nature, I notice a letting go of anything I’m preoccupied with. I feel like it is a sort of mental and spiritual deep cleaning, pushing out the superfluous, reconnecting to the essential. Doing a yoga pose or two during these moments of re-connection is invigorating, somehow more special…
Fantastical Fantasy Canyon
It started with Goblin Valley. The name caught my attention, of course, and when I looked it up to see what it was like, I was even more intrigued. Then Chad told me that there was a place not too far from here that was similar, with strange, fragile rock formations. Fantasy Canyon, the place…
Bear Hike At Pole Creek Canyon
For our latest weekly adventure, Chad took me up to a place called Pole Creek Canyon. We started our hike off-trail through some lovely Aspen forest, Chad pointing out bear claw marks on trees, and rocks overturned by bears looking for ants. Being pretty new to this type of hiking, that is, hiking in territory…
Travel: Going West
Around a year ago I went to the airport to meet in person, for the first time, a man who I’d met online and had been writing to for a little over two months. Our letters to each other made me feel like I’d found the friend I’d always longed for and the romantic partner…
Hikes: Desert Hike in the Uintah Basin
For labor day we decided to go for a hike in one of Chad’s favorite desert canyons. He’d been telling me about this place, but I’d been slightly put off from getting excited about it because of a big stretch of power lines that were near the entrance. His enthusiasm for the location, however, convinced…
Hikes: Larva Lake
One of the ways Chad and I like to keep our relationship strong and let ourselves relax is by going on some type of adventure once a week. Chad took me up to another of his favorite spots in the Uintah Mountains. We hiked through the Ashley National Forest on our way to a small…
Travel: Cool Night in Mancos
Waking up in Chaco was hot, really hot, so it was a relief to finish out the day in the cool evergreen forest at Mancos State Park, Colorado. The next day before we hit the road we had a fun time doing some yoga, taking photos and relaxing. As ready as I was to get…
Travel: Drive through Southern Utah
As we made our tired way along the last leg of our 2016 cross-country odyssey (day 10!), I was thrilled to snap photos of the amazing scenery in Southeastern Utah. These landscapes always make me feel that I should be seeing big cats roam along them, as if they belong in Africa or southeast Asia….
Travel: Chaco National Heritage Park, New Mexico
The road to get there was 21 miles of washboard purgatory (why not hell? well, we didn’t know if we would ever arrive…), but the arrival was cool moonlight silhouettes of astounding buttes. Coyotes howled all night and the burning sun woke us in the morning. This was my first real experience of the desert.
Travel: Oasis State Park, New Mexico
I got some good driving time in on the RV going from southwest Oklahoma to northeast New Mexico. The roads were nice and straight, which made for smoother sailing in the RV (which over 55mph often felt like a boat rocking on a troubled sea), and I started to relax a bit driving such a behemoth….
Travel: Wichita Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
The Wichita Wildlife Refuge was one of the few destinations that were on our original travel plan that we actually made it to. It was exciting to be arriving just around sunset and to have a wide choice of campsites to pick from. Also, we were finally out of the humid forests of the Southeast…
Travel: Tishimingo Morning
Arriving at Tishomingo State Park in Mississippi late on the second day of our cross-country honeymoon trip was exciting because I was out of known territory. The camp sites were nestled in around a lake, and we drove around in the dark trying to pick the best one (ie, the one that was both close…
Travel: Late Arrival at Victoria Bryant State Park
Our first stop on our cross-country trip was Victoria Bryant State Park. This was not where we had planned to stay, but once we got on the road, we quickly realized we weren’t going to make the 10pm gate closing at Fort Mountain State Park in Georgia. (Note to fellow travelers, 10pm seems to be…
Travel: Charlotte NC to Utah, the Southern Route
After making the big decision to get married and move me across the country, we had to decide what route we would take getting there. Earlier that June we had driven a quick, direct line from Utah to NC passing through Kansas. This time we wanted more parks to stay in on our trip. Our…
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