The People That You Meet - Garden of the Gods/Illinois

Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Vacation, hiking | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Our second hike was through the Garden of the Gods. The mainstay of the park is a lame stone paved trail that takes one past the largest of the rock formations, a bluff area over looking a valley. Once part of a vast sea that millions of years ago covered the state, today it plays [...]

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The Little Grand Canyon - Illinois

Posted on March 28, 2008. Filed under: Vacation, hiking, remarriage, second marriages | Tags: , , , |

Our first hike of the honeymoon was to be a loop in Shawnee National Forest that would take us through the Little Grand Canyon. Not, according to my husband, very aptly named. He was right. Grand Canyon mini-miniature might have been more accurate, but to be fair, once we made it down from the Big [...]

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A Picnic in Elk Island Park

Posted on February 18, 2008. Filed under: Canada, daily life, family, love, parenting, writing | Tags: , , |

We have been promising Katy a hike and a picnic lunch in the nearby Elk Island Park for some time, but until this week, it has been far too cold. Friday the weather turned and though not as warm as some of you in the southern 48 might think it should be to hearld the [...]

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Peeing in the Woods

Posted on April 4, 2007. Filed under: Second Edition | Tags: , , |

My first lengthy sojourn into the mountains of Arkansas was a memorable experience for several reasons. To begin with, it was the first time I have really hiked as opposed to just taken a walk in the woods. I am not a girly-girl, or at least I have never been accused to my face of [...]

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