In an effort to catch up this site on our adventures before life gets crazy again, today we are sharing about a variety of hiking and exploring that we’ve done in Southeastern Connecticut. Some of these were just short afternoon outings, while others were day trips — just a little too uneventful to be made into their…
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…
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….
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….