Solo Parent Camping Trip – And 5 Tips

It’s usually about mid-February that I start itching to travel. The weather starts teasing us with Spring-like days followed by days of snow. Winter is still hanging on, but I’ve been getting seed catalogs in the mail since before Christmas, begging me to start planning my garden. Cabin-fever has set in. This year it set…

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Roadtrip 2015 – Assateague Island National Seashore

Now leaving Pennsylvania… We’ve backpacked Assateague Island National Seashore three times now. Once just Matt and I, once with another couple, and now once with a little one. This is the first time we’ve gone during peak season. On the trip we had already realized that when traveling during peak season – we usually don’t…

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Roadtrip 2015 – Hickory Run State Park and Boulder Field

After leaving Ricketts Glen State Park, we headed south. We made it to Hickory Run State Park where we stopped for the night. We set up camp and walked down to the little fishing area where Matt had no luck until he baited for a particularly small fish hanging out near the shore and caught…

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Roadtrip 2015 – Ricketts Glen State Park

We got a very late start. No matter how much you plan, you can’t plan everything. Exhibit A: we hadn’t even left the driveway and plans were changed – twice. Finally, it was decided that due to our late start we would spend our first night in the Allegheny National Forest, and from there go…

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Do’s and Don’ts of Backpacking with Little Roamers

I know, I know, months ago I said I would be posting about our roadtrip. I wrote them all today, and scheduled them to release over the next week, so they really are coming this time. In the meantime… We took Little Roamer on his first backpacking trip when he was just over 13 months…

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