Category: Adventure

  • Parks & Rec

    Parks & Rec

    Recently, Thoughtful Husband rented a recreational vehicle to tour some nearby state parks.  It was actually for my birthday– and what a lovely gift it was to adventure together in comfort. I found it endearingly Freudian that Tech-obsessed Little Man kept referring to it as a “VR” instead of an “RV.”  We loaded up and…

  • The Big Easy

    The Big Easy

    When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. My mom is the best at this. After her work conference was canceled due to COVID constraints, my generous mother kept her reservation to New Orleans and toted my much older sister & me along for a whirlwind girls’ trip. Sporting medical masks and matching Mardi Gras-themed outfits,…

  • Summer FOMO

    Summer FOMO

    About mid-summer, my much older sister and I drafted a master list of allllll the adventures we’d yet to endeavor before her critters headed back to traditional school. She called it a bucket list– I dubbed it the FOMO list. With haste, we redoubled our efforts and squeezed an insane amount of summery fun into…

  • Camp Champs

    Camp Champs

    We managed to squeeze another teensy camping trip into our fleeting summer by hijacking my next-door [much older] sister’s recent family getaway. I suppose living 50 yards apart just isn’t close enough. Camp crashing’s actually been in the family for generations– why, sixty-two years ago this week our grandparents honeymooned at Crane Prairie, and both sets…

  • Family Camp

    Family Camp

    It’s not often that my husband and his two siblings are in the same zip code, these days. Add in their folks, spouses, and offspring and it’s a regular family reunion. For a recent rendezvous we split the difference between our geographical locales and set up habitation at the intersection, a remote mountain campground: Olallie…

  • Midsummer Photo Flood

    Midsummer Photo Flood

    I blinked and it’s August. Our summer’s been so blessedly full that we’ve scarcely had time to catch our breath. Thank goodness for modern conveniences like camera phones– the following’s our mid-summer photograph deluge, for nostalgia’s sake. Now excuse us while we wring the last bits of fun from the last remaining weeks of summer.…

  • A More Perfect Union

    A More Perfect Union

    There’s nothing like a holiday weekend cohabitating with extended family to insure domestic tranquility and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. To celebrate our nation’s 243 years of independence, my mom and her partner booked a vacation rental at the coast and invited their collective offspring to join them in star-spangled…

  • A New England, Maritime Tour (our bonus vacay)

    A New England, Maritime Tour (our bonus vacay)

    When Husband was plotting our literary pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, he quickly discovered that direct flights to the island were pretty spendy. Flying into Halifax, Nova Scotia, from where we could take the ferry over, would be considerably less costly; and cheaper still were flights out of major hub Logan International in Boston. When…

  • Green Gables Literary Tour

    Green Gables Literary Tour

    We’ve just returned home from a glorious vacation– a pilgrimage back to my mother’s homeland, Prince Edward Island, for a sentimental sabbatical and literary field-trip to cap off our homeschool year. For a week in Green Gables I’m going to do absolutely nothing but run free in a green world of summer. (Anne of Windy Poplars)…