My teenage daughter, Jordan, and I were on a five day guided llama trekking trip through Colorado’s Weminuche Wilderness with Redwood Llamas. We had spent last night at Eldorado Lake, camping in a beautiful valley at 12,500 ft, way up high in the San Juan Mountains. It had been a dramatic night, watching skies produce a pinkish […]
My teenage daughter, Jordan, and I were on a five day guided llama trekking trip through Colorado’s Weminuche Wilderness with Redwood Llamas. We had spent the last two nights at Elk Creek Camp, a rocky ledge in the San Juan Mountains a few miles south of Highland Mary Lakes. (Read Part 1 here.) Today was time to move […]
When I had asked my 17 yr old daughter what she’d like to do this summer she’d said, “Something with llamas!” Frankly, it came as no surprise. Her current fascination graced water bottles, mugs, phone covers and even socks she’d accumulated over the last year. So I googled “llama trekking” out of curiosity. Several options […]
Day 3 of our Transumanza Journey The Maremma sheep dogs–mere yards away from our tent– had been barking since 4am. A couple of hours later, my 16 year-old daughter and I crept out of our tent in the darkness, seeking warmth in the agriturismo farmhouse where the majority of our group was sleeping inside. Nunzio, […]
Day 2 of our transumanza adventure— the age-old tradition of leading animals on an annual migration to higher mountain pastures in the Apennines Mountains of Abruzzo, in central Italy. My 16 year old daughter and I had joined a group of mostly Italian people, an Italian guide, and some Maltese, who had collectively joined […]
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