Somehow it feels like the first full breather we’ve had in weeks.. or months really. Post wedding preparation, the wedding itself, the post-wedding visiting, packing and unpacking and the finalization of honeymoon plans? We’re finally waking up to the morning of day #1. Where we’ve thought through and planned as much as we need to [...]
There’s something about the sequence of a weekend with a day tacked on, the preceding Friday or the following Monday, that just opens up a whole other world of possibility. So sure, that might make for getting to those errands you’ve never quite gotten to, an extra morning to sleep in or the chance to [...]
That refrain, one with which Sarah responded over this weekend as she was tending to the crackling, curling strips over the portable stove, and as I was taking down our tent on Sunday morning, was pure poetry. How else to get to the distilled essence of what makes camping so great? We made it out [...]
That last geographic marker is an important one; we went to central Massachusetts, not western Massachusetts. I’ll be the first to own up to the unintended Boston-centricness of that mistake, considering pretty much all of the journey out on lovely Route 2 as ‘west.’ Now I know better. Sarah and I were gently and kindly [...]
So one of the particularly nice things that I like about travel, (the train or plane variety when you aren’t at the mercy of the weavy car or bus), is the opportunity to catch up on my magazine reading. And it’s especially good considering this simultaneously allows for a strategic tackling of the growing pile [...]
There’s a good ring to that. Arizona in mid-February, a geographic and temporal contrast to our snowy, icy winter on the east coast. And while we didn’t exactly get hot weather, with temperatures only getting up into the low to mid 50s, it was pretty perfect. And how about getting lucky by missing northern Arizona’s [...]
So it really feels like we made the most of fall this year, driving out for one more night of tent camping in the leaf-peeping glory that is western Massachusetts in mid-October. Simplicity being best, a few pictures…
Finally getting around to posting some pictures from the Baxter State Park trip this past weekend. And at the same time, four days later, to also be working out the last soreness (the good kind) in legs, shoulders and the soles of my feet. With a 7.5 mile hike just to get into the backcountry [...]
How nice to mix the requisite fall visit out to Western Massachusetts with a weekend bike trip through the AMC. Staying in a charmingly converted barn in Hancock, MA–on the border between Massachusetts and New York. Right in the Berkshires and close enough to see the Taconics. Brisk morning starts but warming up both days [...]
Half a Day in Portland and a Winery Wedding
I guess it’s inevitable, but there’s the tinge of a feeling that with so much possibility of things to see and do, there just isn’t enough time to spend in any one place to really do it right. A gift of a problem to have, undoubtedly. But that’s kind of the promise of travel and [...]