Plattsburgh, NY to Rutland, VT | Visiting Crown Point State Historic Site | April 2023 The morning after Charlotte’s appointment in Burlington was honestly really difficult. We woke up in our hotel room in Plattsburgh, and it was clear that Charlie was in a lot of pain. She snapped at us when we tried to…
Final Days in Tupper Lake | Tupper Lake to Burlington, VT | Hiking in Causeway Park & Eagle Mountain | March 2023 After Charlotte’s vet appointment in Lake Placid, we returned to Tupper Lake for 2 more nights before going to Vermont for the optometrist appointment. During that time, we mostly laid low and let…
This is likely the hardest post we’ve had to write to date, and is all the more jarring given how bright and optimistic the previous posts have been about our time in the Adirondacks. This is largely because those posts were written proactively, the day that we did those hikes, and not influenced by what…
Hiking Arab Mountain & Panther Mountain | Tupper Lake, NY | March 2023 On our first full day in the Adirondacks, we slept in, had breakfast and tea, and basically just lazed around for a good part of the morning. As the morning warmed up ever so slightly, we decided to go and hit a…
Oswego to Tupper Lake, NY | Death Brook Falls | Buttermilk Falls | Goodman Mountain | March 2023 One of the things that we have to deal with in my new job is that, just like in the Navy, sometimes we stay longer at places than we initially planned – like in Illinois where we…
Week 3 in Oswego, NY | Hiking in Rice Creek | Downtown Oswego | March 2023 During our third and final full week in Oswego, Curtis had to work all but one night. We spent most of the week with our simple routine of Curtis working and Charlotte and myself sleeping nights, then Curtis would…