Come For a Walk On the Tundra With Me in Rocky Mountain National Park
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Snow Blizzard (A Poem by Roxy Whalley)
In answer to our prayers, she came, Claiming the land as her own. Bellows of whiteness blinding our vision, So welcome was this loss of sight. A trillion tiny white […]
Skis, Snowmobiles, and A Dog Named Thor
Originally written for my column Tales From The Trail, published in The Estes Park News in 2005. Barb & Joe crawled gratefully into their flimsy tent brushing snow from their […]
White Queen ~ A Poem by Roxy Whalley
White Queen ~ by Roxy Whalley She blankets the world in a white shroud, turning sharp edges into rugate shapes. The stuff of the earth, disguised by white crystals. What […]
The Trail Ahead ~ A Poem by Roxy Whalley
My story is on the trail, I just don’t know the story yet. The trail doesn’t know it yet, but it is there, waiting, inevitable, unavoidable. The story waits […]
How I Slept in my Subaru Outback (My home from 2010-2012?)
Written in August 2012, for my (then) blog, A Free-Spirited Woman. Some of you may be wondering how I go about sleeping in my car. Above: In 2010 I replaced […]
Grizzlies In Colorado?
The following story is based on a true account from a local prospector who values his privacy. Therefore, the name I have used is fictional and any similarity to that […]
Down by the Riverside
Since I left Colorado back in October, I’d done a lot of traveling, and now it was time for a few lazy days. I had come down to this part […]
Rocky Mountains to Dinosaur
October 5 – 12, 2017 ~ Solo travels winter 2017/2018 My last day of work was October 5, 2017. The store I worked in was cutting back on hours, and […]
September in the Colorado Rockies
Even when I live and work in a place as beautiful as Estes Park, CO. for the summer I find it necessary to get away for a few days for […]
A Nomad for Nature 