Day 9: We rose early in Bar Harbor, cleaned up, had some breakfast and packed camp to get into Acadia. Jeff and I talked on the way about how the night we met we were sitting in Momo’s, a piano bar in Sioux City, discussing places we would like to go someday while leafing through […]
Day 8: Our last morning in Vermont we cleaned up, packed, and played catch in the clearing right outside our campsite – it was mowed and trees cleared perfectly, like it was there just for a game of catch. We had Ben research a place to eat and he found us the cutest little bagel […]
Day 7: This might have been one of my favorite days on the whole trip and one of the days I have the least details to give. We awoke to the smell of trees and grass in Little River State Park. Everything there is a bright shade of green. The only place we had in […]
Deer Run Campground was an interesting place. Upstate New York in general is pretty interesting. There are these areas we drove through that are clearly the places to go, beautiful and well kept. The people are a little more well spoken and sophisticated, edging on snobbish. And then, there is the wild, rural back country […]
Sometimes there are things in this world you think are unattainable. Things you think you’ll never have the chance to do and then all of the sudden…Boom…there it is. The first time it ever happened was when I was a fresh college graduate and I saw the Coliseum for the first time. After that there […]
Day 4: Morning dawned on one of our favorite campsites and we knew it was time to leave. We spent the morning slowly getting ready and hanging out a little more with our Minnesota camping friends. It was hard to go watching the kids all have so much fun together. It’s been good to keep […]
Day 3: Benny’s birthday! Started with a pillow fight with his brother outside the tent while mom and dad took turns showering and making breakfast. I read Ben his traditional birthday book while Jeff told all our new camping friends it was Ben’s big day – he got “Happy birthdays!” all throughout the day 🙂 […]
Day 2: We woke early got ready, had a nice breakfast all together with the Pierces and said our goodbyes. We drove to the border and crossed into Canada. The boys laughed a little at their own surprise at how much it looked the same. Sam asked our border agent his name – it was […]
July 2019. That was the last time I posted to our blog. It’s been a weird couple of years and I’m sure I will talk about that a lot more in posts ahead. I took a long hiatus from social -well, everything. As covid seeped in, I started to move away from all forms of media. […]
For the last several years, I have had “Mayor’s Tree Lighting” on my schedule of things to do for Christmas. Every year we have a conflict, decide it’s too cold, or forget. This year we had just gotten back from our trip and Jeff was off again to Salt Lake City to learn about a […]