Quiet Whisper
We’d made a mistake. We all knew it but there wasn’t anything we could do about it. The previous night we had camped at the end of Coyote Gulch. It was a nice campsite next to the creek. And it was quiet. Tonight, we were camped at a popular campground closer to Bryce Canyon. Our site was next to a hotel parking lot. We heard crying children, yelling parents, and endless horn beeps as car doors were locked. Unfortunately, that was just the start of the noise. We were
Pleasant Inns
I was recently backpacking our Canyon Ministries Grandview Loop in the Grand Canyon.  As I finished scrambling down a scree field from the top of Horseshoe Mesa, I came upon a beautiful campsite at Cottonwood Creek. The water was falling over a small waterfall and making a pleasant babbling sound. There was a perfect spot for my one-person tent under a juniper tree. This oasis in the desert made a dream campsite. I settled into camp, listening to the album Hebrews by Psallos as I fell asleep. Psallos is