Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Vacation, hiking | Tags: family vacations, Garden of the Gods, Goth teens, hiking, Illinois, national parks, river bluffs in the midwest, Tracy Ullman |
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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Posted on March 28, 2008. Filed under: Vacation, hiking, remarriage, second marriages | Tags: Carbondale, hiking, Illinois, The Little Grand Canyon |
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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Posted on February 18, 2008. Filed under: Canada, daily life, family, love, parenting, writing | Tags: blending, fathers and daughters, hiking |
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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Posted on April 4, 2007. Filed under: Second Edition | Tags: Devils Den, hiking, women peeing outdoors |
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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