Brittany is my gypsy friend—she returns home to Salt Lake from time to time to cook food and tend her garden, but most of her time is spent traveling in her Sprinter or around the world to chef for events and climb. I love cooking too, so when we get together there’s always eating involved.

Sometimes she comes down to Moab to do some climbing, or else we try to find a time when we will both be in striking distance of a good spot. I knew I wanted to head down to Arizona to do some skydiving, so I checked in with Brittany to see if she wanted to meet up in Sedona on the way: turned out, she was coming back from an event in Bishop and was already planning to stop at her mom’s house in Flagstaff exactly when I was thinking to stop through.

It’s nice when things work out like that!