A Moving Experience…

Despite all our best intentions, life always has its way. If you’ve signed up to receive these Thoughtletters, you might have been wondering where I’d disappeared to for the last year+.

Moving is always more work than you planned. There are always surprises, and everything takes longer than anticipated. Moving out of state is exponentially more complicated. And when the stores and organizations involved don’t do what they said they’d do, sometimes for months, it can drag on….

Grand-kids, and kids, are a big draw. They drew me from Sacramento (California) to Las Vegas (Nevada). Different worlds, in every way! My new house had no storage, not even a linen closet (in a 3-BR house?… really??), and several large, important things needed repair or replacement. Unfortunately — and unbeknownst to me or to anyone I knew there — from November to January in Vegas (I moved at the end of October), it’s impossible to hire a handyman. They’re all working overtime putting up holiday lights all over town.

So all my big jobs had to wait. Shelving and storage had to wait. All my furniture sat in the garage for months, as I e-mailed or called daily the big-box store that couldn’t figure out how to deliver the couch that everything else had to fit around. The kitchen sink was useless. No doorbell. The list was daunting, and it all waited…and waited….

I’m mostly moved in now, and back at work.

In the meantime, while chaos was the word of my every day for many months, my latest book, “Success in 7 Steps,” actually did get published — and promptly won two awards!

During the course of this chaotic year, the documentary about me, “Climbing Into Life,” won 13 awards at film festivals! It will soon be available to the public.

The second documentary about my feats, “Inner Walls / Au Pied du Mur” (French/English, from Montréal) has premiered around the world and will soon be available to the public in 2026.

So life goes on, albeit much delayed by reasons beyond my control.

Despite what you may have heard about Las Vegas, it’s an amazing place for hiking and climbing, which is why my son, Alex Honnold, lives here (“you can climb here all year!”).

And even better… my grandkids live here.

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