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I said goodbye to Colorado today. • I wanted to write something deep and profound. Something gracious and optimistic. Something about opportunity and growth and embracing the change. • But I just don’t feel like that today. • It is hard to leave the mountains, my family, and so many friends behind. Say goodbye to the only place I’ve ever called home. Hug my parents the last time for months and watch the foothills fade into prairie behind me. • It’s tough. But I don’t want to ignore my emotions, because they are there for a reason. I’m going to sit with these feelings tucked close to my chest: the loss and doubt, discomfort and fear. Move forward with them. Honor them. • Maybe tomorrow the excitement will set in and the opportunity will be more apparent and the sky will be brighter and I’ll be able to see the city as the incredible home it’s likely going to be. • But I feel sad today. And I think that’s okay 💙 • #Colorado #Home

🚍💭🌄l l e g a n d o🌄💭🚍 • Golden hour dissolved slowly into sundown as the bus curved gently toward Fitz Roy. Suddenly the mountains that had seemed so distant in my dreams were so near in reality. The very same peaks I had dreamt about in my teens were there right in front of me, framed perfectly by the windshield. • Bugs splattered the glass and seat-backs obscured the view, but it felt so perfect and whole. It had been messy and scary and at times so doubtful getting to this point in my life. But somehow I managed to be sitting at that moment in that seat facing those mountains. I had been awaiting this scene for years, saying to my friends and my family and anyone who’d listen, “I’m going to Patagonia one day. I’m going THERE. I don’t know when but I am.” • The bus came to a halt on the edge of El Chaltén, just before the final minutes of sunset. Peaks of deep purple peered over the hill in front of me, an impossibly pink cloud motionless overhead. A sign with the same mountains in the background greeted us. “Bienvenidos” it read - and I thought, ‘Welcome to your dreams’

🌴❄️🐢¡Happy 🌍 Day!🌊♻️🦋 • Our poor mother has been under a lot of stress recently. And homegirl needs some help from you and me and everyone else out there that’s living on her sweet soil and breathing in her lovely air. • Here are 3 simple things that I do and you can too to help this little planet of ours be a little cleaner and little greener. • 1️⃣ I carry my reusable water bottle EVERYWHERE. Seriously, that thing is my damn security blanket. Ask most of my friends or coworkers and they’ll vouch that it comes with me on every trip from those to the grocery store or restaurant down the street all the way to the other side of the world. My favorite brands are @hydroflask and @nalgene but there’s tons of great stuff out there. Get yourself one and say goodbye to those single-use plastic bottles once and for all 👋 • 2️⃣ I try to eat less meat. Meat production has a HUGE carbon footprint, particularly beef. Sure, I love the occasional hamburger or chicken burrito just as much as everyone else, but I try to be intentional about consuming less meat than I used to. I only cook vegetarian at home and never buy meat at the grocery store. And when I do eat meat out at restaurants, I try to choose chicken more often than beef. If everyone made an effort to just eat LESS meat than they are currently, our planet would be a whole lot healthier (and maybe we would too!) • 3️⃣ I say no to plastic bags whenever I can. I try to take my backpack or reusable grocery sacks to the store. I deny a bag for any to go food that I can carry in my hands. And I use the plastic bags I do get to pick up my dog’s waste on walks. Easy and efficient! • Try these things out yourself and let me know if you have some simple habits that help this 🌎 • PS I love you Mother Girl - every day should be your day 💚 • 📷: Laguna Torre fed by Glaciar Grande with Cerro Torre towering above

Finally editing some Patagonia photos from my camera. If you need me I’ll be on my computer/phone incessantly clicking and tweaking images until school starts in June 😳📷🏔

🎒🏔⛺️TDP⛺️🏔🎒 • We started the day in drizzling rain which progressed into blustery snow and ended with beams of sunlight paving the way to our next camp on the trek. Not so different than the Colorado high-country in the spring or fall, it actually kind of felt like home. We had hiked 23.3 km (14.5 miles) in about eight and a half hours and were looking forward to celebratory brews once we reached camp. • Our knees were creakin’ and backs were achin’ on the final stretch. Before this point in the day, we hadn’t been able to see much of the mountains around us due to the weather. But as we trailed out of the valley and around a lake’s edge, the sun revealed what had been hidden from us all day: the aptly named Cuernos (horns in Spanish) towering in the distance. I wish I were better at walking backwards because I could have gawked at those peaks the rest of my way. • Couldn’t have made this trek happen without the help of @carriemeonmyway and the rest of the @venturepatagonia team - you all are stellar at what you do. Thank you, thank you 🙏 • And of course the best hiking partner I could have asked for, @ericspaller , who cruised up mountains, never complained once, and kept me laughing the whole time. You’re a gem, bud 💎🥾👯‍♂️ • 📷: Los Cuernos - day 3 of the W Trek in Torres Del Paine National Park, Chilean Patagonia

🏞🌺🌿Found Eden🌿🌺🏞 • #Cochamó #CochamoValley #Cochamo #ValleDeCochamo #Patagonia #Chile #VisitChile #Viajar #Travel #Wanderlust #Fernweh #Backpacking #NakedPlanet #ExploreMore #Adventure #TravelGram #WorldCaptures #PassionPassport #InstaTravel

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