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 – 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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Parks Passports

Little Roamer was given a National Parks Passport for his first birthday. (Actually, he was given three – one for each of us) He also got a Kids’ Passport Companion and a set of NPS Passport stamps for 2014 and 2015. I’m not going to lie, I was pretty pumped. I really love this idea!…

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First Camping Trip

I’ve been doing some research on making camping and backpacking with a baby go as smoothly as possible. I couldn’t believe some of the stories I found of people taking trips with their young ones. Like this long-distance trip with a 3-month-old, or this month-long arctic trip. After sifting through more information and ideas than…

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