Woods Wind Wander

Wow, it's been since January since I've had the opportunity (and the emotional energy, to be honest) to update the ol' blog.  We have gone on some mini-adventures the first half of this year: a spring trip to Chincoteague, VA; Deep Creek and Cambridge, MD; and small visits to West Virginia and Pennsylvania.  I hope to write mini-posts on those excursions at some point, but I am happy to report that we are currently back in New Hampshire!  Yaaaaay!  I'm just a little excited to be here 😉 We got up at 3:30am back at home, left at around 4:15 to make the trek north.   Someone actually slept Honestly, we had a great trip up.  Traffic on the George Washington Bridge in New York City was fine and we didn't experience any major slow downs, so we arrived here in New Hampshire at about 3pm.  Being true to ourselves (and in desperate need of movement after being in a cramped car all day) we decided to go for a small hike.   Last f...

The vista from Snows Mountain This fall our trip to the White Mountains started off with some extreme mileage, a twelve mile hike (which is at least extreme to our kids), followed by two 4,000 footers.  Some times it is easy for me to get wrapped up in the "big" things like: how long is the hike, is it a famous/popular hike, is it a 4,000 footer, etc.?  But I've found that the  problem with that sort of focus is that you can potentially exhaust yourself physically and mentally (and your children!), and you tend to overlook some pretty amazing sights.  For instance, the day we drove to New Hampshire we arrived at about 4 p.m.  That is not enough time to do anything "substantial" but we walked from our house down to the river and followed the Mad River Trail for about a mile or 2.  It was gorgeous and the boys absolutely loved being along the water, the crossings, and all the rocks.  We probably would have never considered the hike otherwise.  Anoth...