Hiking to Bald and Stillwater Fire Towers • Weekend in the Western Adirondacks, Day 1 • April 22, 2017 It is officially camping season again, and we couldn’t be more excited! Well, most campsites in Upstate NY don’t agree (and aren’t open until May), but that sure didn’t stop us! All we wanted to do for Curtis’ recent 4-day…
Mason-Dixon Line Road Trip, Part 4 • March 19, 2017 • C&O Canal National Historic Park, Fort Frederick State Park, and Berkeley Springs, WV • Written by Jess & Curtis After a very full day of history and hiking the day before, we woke up to a colder and overcast day, and decided to take it easy. Our…
Road Trip to the Mason-Dixon Line, Part 3 • March 18, 2017 • Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, the Maryland Heights Trail, and Washington Monument State Park After our visit to Antietam, we drove about 20 minutes South to our next historic site, Harpers Ferry. We crossed the Potomac River into Virginia briefly then into West Virginia,…
Road Trip to the Mason-Dixon Line, Part 2 • March 18, 2017 • Antietam National Battlefield In the year 2000, my parents took my siblings and I on essentially a 2-week long “field trip” to the East Coast. I think that was our first major road trip as a family, and it was about as eventful and…
Road Trip to the Mason-Dixon Line, Part 1 • Gettysburg National Battlefield • March 17, 2017 “We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything.” — Jonah Lehrer That quote…
Weekend in the Finger Lakes, Part 3 • Sugar Hill, Mossy Bank Park, and Keuka Lake • February 11 & 12, 2017 After spending 6 hours chasing waterfalls around the Finger Lakes, we began heading back to our hotel in Bath with a few more stops in mind. We drove West back to Watkins Glen, then started…