Our summer travels are at an end, and we are back home in Utah. I’m back at school, but our memories of a wonderful time back east are still fresh in our minds. I want to share an experience that has resonated with me for the past two summers, Disc Golf. The adventure began in the summer of 2021 when I read about the connection between disc golf, beer, and cannabis in a free publication that I picked up at Trinken Brewing Co., a craft brewer in Bath, Maine. My memories of playing Frisbee Golf (can’t call it that any more, for trademark reasons!) in the quad at college came…

Our annual cross-country journey never grows old. Even though we move at a fast pace, especially on our way East, there are always surprises. This year’s trip, in early June, provided a good example. A last minute decision to push beyond Toledo, Ohio had us camping beside the highway at a Law Enforcement Training Center for police dogs, which is part of Harvest Hosts, about which you may recall we wrote last year. Despite the possibility of horrific encounters between Piper, our sweet but territorial Great Pyrenees and the German Shepherds in residence, all was quiet except for the hum of the highway and an occasional train whistle. A quick…

Even though the world seems to be in turmoil, Spring arrived here right on schedule. The mini daffodils that my class planted in November popped open just before we dispersed for Spring Break and the forsythia was blushing yellow. A quick stop at Trader Joe’s, that same day on my way home, produced a pot of tulips and I bought them even though I knew we were leaving the next day. At $3.99 who could resist? Sure enough the tulips ended up in the truck the next morning, tucked in precariously between bicycle helmets and ski gear. We headed south to Santa Fe, in the Land of Enchantment, and it…