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…
July 23, 2017 • Natchaug State Forest • Mashamoquet Brook State Park The day after our trip through Rhode Island, we spend most of the morning weighing our options for what we could possibly do. We came up with many ideas: staying local, going to Hartford, going to Boston, going to the Western part of the state….
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,…
Through Hiking in Mount Holyoke Range State Park • Saturday, July 15, 2017 For our 3rd weekend in Connecticut, we had a complicated situation we had to work around. I’ll share those details in a later post — today, I want to write about the fun part: through-hiking the Mount Holyoke Range in Massachusetts! We woke up at…
Haley Farm State Park • Ledyard Glacial Park • Sunset at Seaside • Charlotte’s 3rd Birthday On July 9, the day after visiting our first Sky’s the Limit Challenge site, we decided to go out and visit our second site in the challenge, located in Haley Farm State Park. Haley Farm is directly East of Bluff Point in Groton….