Outdoors
Tale as old as time: Empty nesters buy off-road vehicle for midlife adventuring
April 2, 2025
I would hope we keep trying new things throughout our lifetimes and our marriage. But our move to Nova Scotia and becoming empty nesters has created the perfect conditions to start new things. Enter ATVing.
Pollett's Cove Backpacking Trip
October 21, 2024
Between September’s travels to Montreal and autumn’s school schedule Mom & I were able to squeeze in a long weekend backpacking adventure in the Cape Breton Highlands.
A winter ski trip to the woods
January 31, 2024
A video of solo ski trip in Mont Tremblant National Park In mid-February 2023.
La Verendrye Canoe Camping
November 18, 2021
A video from our Canoe Camping trip at La Verendrye. Apparently the largest maintained canoe camping region in the world.
That's how I see-saw
June 14, 2021
It’s not a deficiency in my personality that my domestic life needs a counterweight, a release valve; and that my adventure life needs a regular return to the relationships and places where I’m rooted. When I stop and think about it, this back and forth seems both obvious and intuitive to my wiring.
Going Solo (& other midlife experiences)
October 29, 2020
For the first time in our marriage, I've been figuring out a vision for my vocational future, on my own, and not related to family life. I've been finding my own spiritual support communities. And I've been solo-adventuring. I think they're all related.
When family is everything (week one)
March 22, 2020
There's nothing we can do in this crisis but hunker down, distance ourselves, and take care of each other, and that's what we're doing. And I'm enjoying this time together. Am I allowed to say that?
