outdoor & running adventures
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If you’re fortunate enough to live in the South or Southwest, you know that October and November can still be considered a part of swimming season. In mid-October and early November we had consecutive 85+/90+ degree […]
It’s time for the next edition of the hiking, camping & the great outdoors roundup. If you’ve come across an article you recommend, please share it with me! Happy reading. National Parks Sierra Club – […]
March can be a tricky month – winter and spring are struggling with each other for dominance and humans are placed in the middle of a battle between goliaths. Although the weather wasn’t quite as […]
At the suggestion of a friend, I’m going to start sharing articles on hiking, camping & the outdoors biweekly or monthly, depending on what’s on my radar. It’s a good way to support what other folks […]
I’m working on my next post about our camping trip to Palo Duro Canyon over Spring Break but in the meantime, because I’m super excited about it, I wanted to share that I just signed […]
The National Park Service officially turned 100 on August 25th, but they’ve been celebrating the entire year. To encourage folks to go and visit our beautiful national parks, they are waiving entrance fees on certain weekends, […]
The Smoky Mountains stole my heart. I admit to being one of those people who shrugged off the idea of visiting Tennessee and finding anything beautiful in the landscape – probably in the way a […]
Colorado Bend State Park was as beautiful as we hoped it would be. We visited in late January (yes this post is super late) and recently spoke with friends who visited in May, and it […]
The last time we went to an REI garage sale, we were total rookies. We showed up a little before 9am (the sale started at 9) and by then, there were a couple of hundred […]
I wanted to like McGillivray Freeman’s “National Park Adventure.” I really did. The trailer looked mesmerizing and I was excited by the idea of having a closer look at some of the national parks I […]
