I was probably younger than two the first time I saw the ocean, so I don’t remember how I felt. I love the water. I love hearing the waves crash on the shore. I love the fresh smell of the ocean. I wish I lived closer to the ocean, but for now, I’ll take the Great Salt Lake, even with the brine shrimp (which you do not eat).
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My grandfather built our family cabin in 1954. It’s located in the High Uinta Mountains in the National Forest. It’s a bit isolated (cell phone reception is sketchy at best, and only down the mountain a mile at the highway), but it has electricity and cold running water (indoor plumbing, it’s gonna be big). As a child, my family would spend most of our summer vacation time here.
My husband had tried to describe this place to me for three years before we were able to go together. While backpacking in Coyote Gulch in the Utah Escalante area, you round a corner just past Jacob Hamblin Arch and this is what you find: the Cathedral. This amazing room has been  slowly carved over centuries by water. Whether you attribute it to God or nature, you cannot deny that this is truly a natural masterpiece.
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A rare sunny day in London.
This photo is from a trip I took to London 10 years ago with some friends. Hoping to make it back there some day soon.
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