A Week in Rutland, Vermont, Pre- and Post-Surgery | Hiking in White Rocks National Recreation Area | Hiking to Thundering Brook Falls | April 2023 Our week in Rutland is broken into 3 parts in my mind: The 2 days before Charlotte’s surgery, the day of surgery, and the 3 days after. And while it…
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…
A Summary of the Week After Hiking the Centennial Trail | May 2021 We awoke the morning after completing the Centennial Trail sore and still with tender feet, but thankful to have slept better than we had in over a week. The only thing on the agenda today was to make the long drive back…
On December 31, 2019, Curtis and I watched the last sunset of the year on Haleakala. Making it through 2019 felt like a huge accomplishment. We had survived our last full year attached to an active duty submarine, and would be moving away in just a few months. 2020 was the year we had been…