Good Riddance: One Foot in Front of the Other

Summiting mountaintops, surrendering to nature, and a special guest for this month’s The Short and Sweet.

Making the climb in the Dolomites, filled with so much joy.

Hi everyone! It’s good to be back with all of you once again.

For the past two weeks I’ve been on a life-changing and life-affirming journey hiking the Dolomites in the Italian Alps with my mom Bonnie, my sister China, and several friends. We started our trip in Venice, Italy, where my mother had never been before. I watched her face light up with delight as we took a water taxi to our hotel through the ancient canals and drank ice-cold-anything in the piazzas under the heat of the summer sun. From Venice, we traveled for six days across the Dolomites region, from Völs am Schlern to Cortina d'Ampezzo, hiking thousands of feet up and down peaks and valleys each day, sleeping in huts nestled in the mountains, and testing the limits of what our bodies and minds could do.