If you know us at all, you’ve probably heard us talk about this once or twice before. Well friends, the time has finally come. We are about to set out on a new adventure; an adventure of the grandest scale (and no I don’t mean children). This is not one based in the mountains, or on a rock-face in the middle of the desert, or even one in a new city. Our next adventure is that of the sea and there, the world will become our playground…our back yard…our home.
In true Challis fashion, we like to break the rules of tradition on nearly every “holiday” or near holiday event. We decided to celebrate “Love Day” which is dubbed as such because it falls the day before Valentines day! We don’t like to celebrate Valentines because we feel like the Hallmark holiday is overly predictable and kinda lame. So we like Love Day – a day to celebrate everything we love – things that we do, foods we eat, company we keep… each other…and so on.
Happy New Year!
It has been quite a busy couple of months, and both Jilly and I have been MAJOR slackers when it comes to posting about our life’s happenings. Really there isn’t that much going on. We’ve both been working a ton and trying to work out before the holiday set in. We were really going stir-crazy in Colorado, so our New Years trip to Arizona was just the thing we needed!
Man o Man it has been quite a crazy fall this year. We have been slowly and surely getting out to experience as much Colorado Climbing as possible before winter is officially upon us! We have spent much of the fall actually up in Boulder Canyon, at this place called Eagle Rock. We post a lot about that in the “You’re Not Hardcore” series. Jilly has been working on a great 5.12A project that she has almost mastered and I have attempted a very hard 5.13A project.
So with all of this Boulder climbing, we decided we wanted to get at least one more camping hoorah out of the van before its too cold to be enjoyable. We decided that Shelf Road would be the perfect destination. It is located about 3 hours south of Boulder, about 50 miles outside of Colorado Springs in a tiny town called Canon City.
I have been thinking about some interesting thoughts/idea’s/topics to write about lately, specifically for my “you’re not hardcore” series of posts (this is not as easy as it seems FYI for all your non-bloggers…to always come up with new ideas to write about). Originally, I thought I might write, in great detail, about WHAT my workouts entail (reps/sets/workouts/just what the hell do I do?). Whenever I mention that I spend 3/4 hours a day with this ‘training,” thing, people always wonder how I spend that much time and the answer to that is it’s easier then you might think.
What’s BB&B stand for you ask? Why bed and breakfast and boat show that we just attended (3 weeks ago) via Newport Rhode Island! We have been so busy since we got back that only now have we managed to put up all the wonderful photos and share the adventure with you, our avid readers (all 3 of you!).
We actually planned this trip over 9 months ago when we were sailing in Annapolis, MD. I have been so curious to go to a boat show since we started sailing, and learned that the Newport, RI show is the most famous one of all. So we bought our tickets almost a year in advance (since it fills up fast), and made a little vacation out of it.
Thank you Sandy! You should check out our new blog www....August 22, 2014 - 2:39 pm by Jacob Challis
Love reading about your adventures. From: Sandy (friends...August 22, 2014 - 2:39 pm by Sandy TerrellLets do a big family trip next year (end'ish of summer ...October 2, 2014 - 2:33 pm by Jacob Challis
Looks amazing!!! We would love to visit with you!!!October 2, 2014 - 2:33 pm by Julieand so easy to make! we've made a couple batches just this...August 15, 2014 - 7:37 pm by Jacob Challis
