Day Trip to Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts • August 6, 2017 • Written by Jess & Curtis When planning for our summer in New England, we made a bucket list of the places we felt we had to see while here. After living in New York for 10 months and now Connecticut for 1.5, it seemed like we should…
Indian Well State Park • Weir Farm National Historic Site • Lovers Leap State Park • August 4, 2017 Curtis had a 3 day weekend for the first weekend of August, so we planned a little day trip to visit our final Connecticut county. It’s much easier to knock out whole states when there are only 8 counties!…
Visiting Downtown Hartford • Talcott Mountain State Park • Stratton Brook State Park • Salmon River State Forest • July 29, 2017 • Written by Curtis & Jess The weekend after visiting Rhode Island’s state capitol, we thought it was about time we visit Connecticut’s. We got up early and hit the road on Saturday, driving North directly into the…
Lock 12 Historic Park • Sleeping Giant State Park • July 25, 2017 Curtis: On the recommendation of a friend, we decided to take a midweek trip to go hiking at Sleeping Giant State Park. Believe it or not, but Southeastern Connecticut is flat — at least flat in comparison to the Adirondacks or Arizona. Whenever we…
Road Trip around Rhode Island • July 22, 2017 If you’ve been reading this blog for very long, you’ll know there are a number of goals we have of things to see or do in each state. The main ones are, in no particular order: hike to the highest point, see Peter Toth’s Whispering Giant statue,…
There is no brief way to explain how this whole situation came about, so if you’re interested in knowing all the details and complications of our PCS to Hawaii, I’ll probably write about the entire thing once it’s all over. To give a little more backstory, check out my post about receiving our orders to Hawaii….