We are almost to the finish line🏁 #backtorealityin48hours• Phil drove every mile through all #elevenstates💃🏻 • #thecropsgrewUP #Nebraska #Oklahoma #NewMexico #Texas #Arizona #California #Nevada #Utah #Colorado #SouthDakota#philmariacrosscountry

What an honor to dine with my dear Pampered Chef friend Lisa at this fine steakhouse😎 Her niece has been a server here for 16+ years and really hooked us up to an incredible #behindthescenes experience😎 • Smith & Wollensky butchers and dry ages all their meat on-site💃🏻 • I did choke back tears in the dry age room....it was all … Continue reading Dry Aged BEEF🥩 →

When I started my ‘veggie peeler’ selling business 23 years ago I had no idea how it would fit into my future!! #zero ...‘working’ along this Summer journey has been incredibly easy! 💃🏻#thankyouhostsandcustomers😎 • Now I get to retreat with my Pampered Chef family in Chicago while Phil golfs 24/7 with his brother Ramon 🏌🏼‍♂️ #winwin philmariacrosscountry #GodsPLANallalong Better With Food - Maria Barrios

Cash Lee • See you in August little man👣

It was 34 degrees with sleet/hail at the top🌤❄️☀️ • We needed a little patience as #touristscanbeCRAZY 😳 #thoseclouds #thoseantlers

....for Phil & A.B. at Lake Grandby gave us two fantastic views😎 • Thunderclouds at Sunset and...a mother moose and baby posing❤️ • #zoomin to see those are clouds not mountains! #philmariacrosscountry

Driving behind the scenes is the best😎 • As newbies, we had to improvise with your dust scarves🤪...but they worked! #rzr #philmariacrosscountry

We ‘chugged’ (literally🤪) up the Vail Pass⛰ to a beautiful campsite with friends😎 • Breakfast in the mountains...and made by the men is a WIN💃🏻•Notes: A.B. Tellez is a life long buddy of Phil's (and best man in our wedding in 1984) He owns an incredible restaurant ...Rosie’s Diner in Monument, CO ...and brought his skills and recipes🤓 #greenchiliburritos #philmariacrosscountryRosie’s Diner: https://eatatrosies.com/

With cherries🍒, peaches🍑, apricots, wine🍷and pies🥧 in hand😎 we head east to Rocky National Park⛰ • The #ColoradoWesternslope was a perfect place to relax and just be quiet for a few days. #philmariacrosscountry 

When you venture way back into #ZionCanyon there is unbelievable green foliage...’weeping walls’ they call it🤓 • The location of Zion allows for desert like scenery and huge canyons! Then when the little bit of moisture seeps down through the rocks it creates these beautiful hanging fern walls🌿 and swamps. #elementaryexplanation • Seeing the greenery on this hike reminded me of … Continue reading ’weeping walls’ 🌿 →