We celebrated our COVID vaccinations with a trip to the Cactus Forest of Saguaro National Park.
COVID VACCINE TO CACTUS FOREST

We celebrated our COVID vaccinations with a trip to the Cactus Forest of Saguaro National Park.
Porter, Philip, and Gail and Amber Storey revel in their adventures, backpacking and meditation respectively, in the Wind River Range, Wyoming.
Porter mountain-bikes while Gail meditates in Utah’s high desert.
Porter hones his winter camping skills in the Indian Peaks with Gail as support and Amber awash in existential angst.
Porter and Gail Storey lose communication in the Eagles Nest Wilderness, but find through heart-mail that it’s all and ever love.
Porter, Gail, and Philip Storey, with Constantine Mavroudis, hike and camp in the Grand Canyon while Amber Storey rides the free shuttle from snack bar to snack bar.
Porter Storey snowshoes to solo winter-camp in Rocky Mountain National Park, while Gail Storey does a solo meditation retreat by the river.
Porter got so sick in the Grand Teton National Forest that I drove him ten hours from northern Wyoming to a Colorado Kaiser Urgent Care clinic open late. Abdominal x-rays didn’t show anything definitive, so I drove him the rest of the way home to see what would happen next. We took heart from the […]
Why are Porter and I on this four-month, 2,700-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Route adventure? It’s a fair question and one we’re often asked, in light of Porter’s bike exploding, grizzly bears, logging trucks on narrow mountain roads, getting lost in the wilderness, storms, and all manner of physical and emotional risks. Nearly 2,000 miles […]
With a mix of wonder, gratitude and relief, we made it 620 miles from the Mexico-New Mexico border nearly to Colorado before we ran into deep snow. As we did hiking the Continental Divide Trail, we’ll leap over Colorado for now and continue north on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route in southern Wyoming. Sections […]