Come to the Lavender Festival!

come to the lavender festival…. it is this weekend, the 11-12th I am making jewelry between climbing days to sell at the festival, along with other craft vendors, pottery, lavender sachets and eye pillows made from antique kimono silk. There will be lavender...

corigated Namibian roads have lead me home….

In the last 10 days, we found it, cleaned it, climbed it, hiked out, bought baskets, flew home, and whew, here I am back in Yosemite…… The memories are a swirl of red granite, bird poo, a 2,000 year old painted giraffe, hidden water holes, beautiful wildlife, and...

A glimpse of Namibia

Here’s a short video that Chris Alstrin put together for me. More to come. Looking past the Quiver tree (the San used this pithy wood to make poison tipped arrows) to the Namibian granite beyond!

!Namibia: climbing in Spitzcoppe

prickly beauty basket weaving finchs have homes everwhere a yellow billed hornbill thanks piet! More stories will come, but probably not for about 3 weeks. Today we Picked up Peter Doucette and Gabe Rogel, Chris Alstrin will come in meet us in a few days…. and...

going to NAMIBIA!

my life in lipstick and robins egg blue (new routing adventure in Namibia) in an hour I will be airborne, way up over the Atlantic, 15 hours to Johannesburg South Africa, and then a few more hours to Windhoek, Namibia. I packed yesterday in a flurry….. the day...

Thanks Matt

Many thanks to Matt Bain at a mastermind of graphic design, I wish I could afford to have him make art for me….