September has been full of whirlwind
weekend adventures. These trips are
priceless, but I am left feeling like I can’t quite cross these quick-fire
places off my bucket list. There is
always more I want to explore: history to learn, trails to hike, sites to see. A weekend to explore a new city is not even
enough time for the development of a fully-formed first impression. But we do it anyway, and I’m so glad we do. I’d like to say that we simply have an urge
for motion—we feel the wanderlust call and must go. Usually, the truth is that we
have people we love in places we have never been, and it works out that we get to
share adventures with people who have special places in hearts.
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The excuse to leave on our first trip this month to Colorado
Springs came in the form of a wedding invitation. A cousin getting married is a
perfectly acceptable reason to book a flight, reserve a rental car, and turn on
the work email’s out-of-office auto-response for a day or so. Once there, we hugged some cousins, aunts,
and uncles, drove through Garden of the Gods, shopped in Manitou Springs, and
danced our hearts out at the wedding reception.
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| Driving through Garden of the Gods |
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| Garden of the Gods. I really want to hike through here someday! |
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| Bride and Groom Dancing |
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| Groom/Mother Dance. |
Our next trip was to the Medford/Ashland, OR area. We sped south to spend the weekend with a
dear friend, who was also celebrating a birthday. Somehow, in two days, we went to Crater Lake,
waltzed our way through downtown Ashland (stopping for fresh baked bread,
caramel apples, and bubble tea), went to a wine tasting at Dancin Winery, and spent an afternoon
in the quaint town of Jacksonville-eating lunch and browsing antiques.
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| Crater Lake |
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| DANCIN Winery |
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| Lunch break in Jacksonville, OR |
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Still though - there is so much more to see in these places. We must make it back someday!
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