Rio Grande Gorge – Passenger Conners

“For the Adventure of Being Alive”

Posted on July 9, 2013February 9, 2014 by Valerie Conners

I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive… I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers…

Off the Grid: Camping the Rio Grande Gorge

Posted on July 2, 2013February 9, 2014 by Valerie Conners

I stared at myself in the hazy, scratched mirror of the campground bathroom. A Chernobyl-sized beetle scampered past my foot. I didn’t flinch. It appeared I wasn’t quite myself. Was it the aftermath of the Black Death-like virus I’d survived the week prior? No, that wasn’t it. Was it the darn altitude fuzzing my brain…