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Monday Mojo 22 – West Desert Season & Donkeys

October 29, 2019 by Amiee

As typical of this time of year, we were drawn west. Sunsets over Great Salt Lake in Autumn are much more vivid than they appear in these photographs. It’s wild out there. The gulls swoop within a few feet of your head, the winds are always vicious, and the plume of unknown substances spewing from…

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Filed Under: Motivation, The Life Tagged With: Great Salt Lake, Mojo Monday

Monday Mojo 21 – I Want My Mojo Back!

September 16, 2019 by Amiee

Arrival. The act of arriving. The attainment of an end or state. The emergence or appearance of a new development or phenomenon. For much of the past spring, I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it. Balancing two jobs over the previous 14 months left little time for all the things that bring…

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Filed Under: Motivation, The Life Tagged With: lost mojo, Mojo Monday

Monday Mojo, Volume 19 – Whirlwind of Stoke!

July 16, 2018 by Amiee

These last few months have been an absolute freaking whirlwind and now that I’ve finally had a chance to take a breath – I’m exhausted! It all started with a Wyoming road trip on my birthday week. Then there was a trip back to Wisconsin to take in a Brewer game and spend some time…

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Monday Mojo, Volume 14, Keeping it Local

November 27, 2017 by Amiee

After much internal debate of should I head south and enjoy one last unseasonably warm desert weekend or should I head north to Jackson and ski opening day at Jackson Hole, I decided to stay put and tick off some bucket list runs close to home. The pups and I headed west on I-80 early…

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Filed Under: Motivation, The Life Tagged With: Keeping it Local, Microadventures, Mojo Monday, Salt Lake City

Monday Mojo, Volume 13

November 13, 2017 by Amiee

Just got back from a weekend exploring Utah’s Comb Ridge, which is now entirely protected within the Bears Ears National Monument, well for now it is. I’ve been trying to put into words my feelings about the Monumental Utah War over Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, but this is a very complicated issue…

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Filed Under: Motivation, The Life Tagged With: Blanding, Glen Canyon, Mojo Monday, Motivation Monday, Utah

Monday Mojo, Volume 12, Eclipse Style

August 21, 2017 by Amiee

“Total Solar Eclipses occur somewhere on Earth every two years, or so. So just calm yourself when people tell you they’re rare,” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson They are calling it the eclipsolypse. Grocery stars near the line of totality had run out of food days before the eclipse and people are panicking about gasoline shortages. And…

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Filed Under: Motivation, The Life Tagged With: Mojo Monday, Motivation Monday, Total Eclipse

Monday Mojo, Volume 11

August 14, 2017 by Amiee

Lots has happened since my last Mojo – trips to Montana, a whirlwind CANADA tour, a pace gig at the Hardrock 100, Roo’s eye bludgeoning incident, and lots of wildflower Wasatch wanderings. I also got braces 4 weeks ago and literally want to rip my teeth out of my mouth. Pretty sure the only thing holding my…

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Monday Mojo, Volume 10

June 19, 2017 by Amiee

One hundred degrees in the forecast for SLC so I am thinking about fleeing to Canada next week. Looking for suggestions in the Canadian Rockies? I may never come back… I am reading Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime right now and am totally blown away by his stories growing up in South Africa during the…

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Monday Mojo, Volume 9

June 12, 2017 by Amiee

Took a huge wipe-out this past week on my last training run for the Wahsatch Steeplechase and bruised a good 30% of my body and rendered my thumb barely usable. Hopefully that means I will CRUSH the Steeplechase this weekend finally getting my sub-3 hour finish and then I can completely retire from running and…

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Filed Under: Motivation, The Life Tagged With: Motivation Monday

Monday Mojo, Volume 8

June 5, 2017 by Amiee

No mojo last week since I was finding mojo real time in Southern Utah with two of my favorite ladies! Explored several slot canyons in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and went on a super fun route finding adventure in Lower Death Hollow. We missed the prime cactus bloom by about a week, but spied a…

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I still don’t quite understand how one can “ow I still don’t quite understand how one can “own” a bazillion years of geological time 🤔
New obsession, desert ice! New obsession, desert ice!
Not sure if either one of us is ever going to get Not sure if either one of us is ever going to get used to these average Monday morning run views (not a fan of how close he gets to the edge though).
Was worried I’d miss the snow living in the dese Was worried I’d miss the snow living in the desert this winter. Guess I don’t have to 🤷🏼‍♀️
Took my mom on her first slot canyon adventure the Took my mom on her first slot canyon adventure the other week. She said she learned those moves watching Ninja Warriors 😂 We then ticked off another of her bucket list items and had dinner at @hellsbackbonegrill (holy moly carrot cupcake desert, no photos cuz we enjoyed every second!). Now she just needs to buy a horse or at least find one to borrow and her winter in the desert will be complete (although she still has four more months here)!
Day 41 in a tent. Temps never got above freezing t Day 41 in a tent. Temps never got above freezing today. Hotel tomorrow 😜
A few bits of fall in the desert now that I live h A few bits of fall in the desert now that I live here 🌵🍂 💛
When your dog and hubby are sporting matching @sto When your dog and hubby are sporting matching @stormykromerofficial masks and only one of them is wearing it appropriately...
Last night we played bananagrams and I only used f Last night we played bananagrams and I only used flower words. I did not win 🤷🏼‍♀️, yet I did 🎨 💐!
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