You have to have at least one fall getaway, right? And while it doesn’t exactly qualify for the requisite, autumnal drive out to western Mass (still have plans for that one), how great to head first to Peterborough, New Hampshire for a long bike ride and then up north with friends for a bit of [...]
After a moving memorial meeting for DB, I was fortunate to have the chance to head north a bit with Sarah for a stay near Crane beach and the Inn at Castle Hill, a jewel of the Trustees of Reservations. For many reasons, but most importantly in celebration of a birthday, it was a gift [...]
The home part in particular, towards which we are hurtling in still darkness and two stages (Alaska is faaaarr away) on this red eye flight, has a really nice ring to it. Home! The place where we can spread out all of our things, stock up on more complex, perishable foods and perhaps most importantly, [...]
We’ve definitely read the advice about making sure to take it slow in Alaska as well, to avoid what might easily become a scramble to do and see as much as possible. The state’s too large for that kind of visit and more importantly, it misses the point of what the Last Frontier has to [...]
Sarah and I like to observe that we both appreciate what we call ‘the high and the low,’ in the sense of liking both the fancy stuff and the most prosaic (in moderation for both, of course). It’s even better when we can do both at the same time, for instance hitting up the local [...]
Alright, so there seems to be some kind of theme here. Big city? Time to chow down. And Seattle was no exception, especially since we’ve both already visited in the past. How else to experience the good parts of a great town but through its food? After making our way to the city through the [...]
I’m not quite sure how to describe it but by the range, both in what offered itself in observation and of elevation, of what we were able to experience of Washington State’s enveloping Olympic National Park. And a super long sentence. From the primeval temperate rainforest where we stayed at the isolated Queets campground, to [...]
So Sarah, for all her early searching for possible rental houses up and down the Oregon coast, was the clear expert here. The source of information for the right campsites and the relative distances between should-stop-here coastal villages. With the intermediary destination of the Beachside state campground in mind, just north of Yachats, we had [...]
Let’s just say that the drive southbound from Eugene to Roseburg, and then east on scenic Route 138 (the Rogue-Umpqua scenic byway), which follows the winding, picturesque Umpqua river, was a little longer than we expected. Getting in a little past 9:15 in the evening into our darkened patch of woods at our campsite, with [...]
Late Fall at the Appleton Farm Thanksgiving Festival
Can I tell you how glad I was to finally make the annual drive out to Western Massachusetts this past weekend? Really glad… Fall just isn’t the same without that weekend pilgrimage through apple country, meandering down Route 2 in good company, and ending up where you end up. We were particularly glad to come [...]