Outdoors

Traveling light and on the cheap

November 2, 2009

Owning a good tent is the best investment we made in traveling lightly and cheaply.

Have tent will travel

October 30, 2009

If you had told me years ago I'd one day be extolling the virtues of tenting I would be incredulous. I didn't grow up tenting. Vacationing with my family, yes. Staying in cabins and B&B;'s; but sleeping in tents - no. That was for hard core type folks. Or as ...

October at Wolfe's Neck Woods

October 29, 2009

Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park is the place we go to when we want to be outdoors, to enjoy the woods and ocean, but don't have the time for a whole day excursion. This sweet little state park is a 1/2 hour from our home and although it only offers ...

enjoying the fall leaves

October 21, 2009

We have a very teeny yard. You can see a couple photos of it here & here. There are no majestic trees that rain down brilliant leaves in fall. Well, there is the neighbor's tree just over the fence but it's leaves fall too little and too late. For real ...

It's all about the leaves

October 12, 2009

If September is about sunflowers then October is all about leaves. Red leaves, green leaves, golden leaves, tawny leaves. Falling leaves, crunchy leaves, floating leaves, fragrant leaves. Leaves, I love 'em. Yesterday's hike at Camden Hills State Park, the same place we winter camped with my parents in February was ...

While the men are away...

October 4, 2009

the women will play. Well not play so much as putter around. Our men went hiking today without us women. They hiked the highest mountain in Maine, Mount Katahdin, a good 4 hours from our home and the day involved leaving the house at the ungodly hour of 4:00am. I ...