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It’s a good thing I had my hair cut before we left. If I hadn’t, I’m confident I’d have dreads by now. The last time I remember combing my hair with at least five days ago. ? I’m pretty sure Wesley has done about the same. He pulled his hoodie hood off this morning and…

I must say adding sleeping bags to the blankets and sheets made for a MUCH nicer night’s sleep. This morning I woke up warm and was very unmotivated to get out of bed. The key once you’re up is to get moving. Collecting firewood is my exercise of choice. I hauled a bunch up to…

Today was a whirlwind day. We got up earlier today and got right to moving bc it was cold! The Weather app said 45° at the nearest town 2000 feet lower in elevation so it was probably closer to 38°. Wesley started on breakfast and I started searching for firewood. I found a bunch down…

Yesterday we drove from Albuquerque to the Santa Fe National Forest and found some dispersed camping. We are at just over 8100 feet. We arrived late in the afternoon yesterday and setup camp. We were still wrapping up after dark. Overnight we learned that our bedding plan did not keep us warm enough. Cuddling up…

Sad story. Our hotel room went bad yesterday. We did our best to make it work, but we’re going to have to switch rooms today. My cousin Patti lives in Albuquerque and we went over and did a bunch of laundry at their house yesterday which was a huge blessing. We were able to have…

We arrived in NM late last night so we just went to the hotel to sleep with plans to go get new clothes, a rental car, and a new hotel in a better part of town. Our mentor wanted us to get into Old Town bc the MT is less here. I didn’t sleep well…

The second attempt to fly from Cedar Rapids to Denver was successful. The team at United has been pretty awesome. We got a free hotel room, shuttle, and food. You’d think DIA wouldn’t be so bad, but oh my the mold!! The B concourses didn’t seem too bad, but after taking the train to the…

I’m writing this as we sit in our plane in Cedar Rapids waiting for our flight to depart. We’ll arrive in Denver tonight for our 19 hour layover where we have a day to spend with Wesley’s aunt and uncle. We’ll finish our flight to Albuquerque tomorrow night and begin our mold avoidance journey. New…

Happy birthday Wesley! We had a great time spending the evening celebrating with Mom, Seth, Grandma and Grandpa, Ben and Carma, and Wesley’s uncle Wayne. Today was my first chance to really get to know Wayne, and that was fun. It was a productive, yet fairly relaxing day. It’s been nice to have two days…