Photo: Overlooking the Grand Canyon

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Hiking Arizona’s Grand Canyon was a spectacular experience. We spent a few days at the Canyon, exploring different trails into what seemed like an endless canyon of gorgeous orange and red rock. Our ultimately goal was to hike in and out of the Canyon in one day. Rim to river to rim. After extensive research [...]

Inspiring yourself and others

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in·spi·ra·tion/ Noun: The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative: “flashes of inspiration”. The quality of having been so stimulated, esp. when evident in something: “a moment of inspiration in an otherwise dull display”. Who or what inspires you? In October we were honored to participate in [...]

Travel Running

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Growing up I was never particularly athletic but at some point, something changed, and I became a runner.  I’ve now run three marathons and have logged thousands of miles.  The weird thing is….I don’t much care for distance running; it generally hurts, takes up a lot of time, and makes my clothes smell. Lately I’ve [...]

Flashback: Peru

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Our first moments in Peru were not our greatest.  In fact, it was the only point on our whole trip when someone attempted to rob us.  Yup, it was really not a great start.  Things could only get better though and once we thwarted the would be thieves, we were free to roam about the [...]