the Preakness Stakes

I’m doing a 180 here and switching gears entirely. Throwing it back NINE whole freaking years to 2010 and the 135th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. I refuse to believe this much time has passed. In fact, I was legitimately surprised when I did the math. This must be […]

Raising Explorers

It’s especially important in this day and age, when our world can feel like it’s growing smaller and a little more scary, to raise our children to learn to love the earth and the people on it. By showing our kids how beautiful and fragile this planet is, and teaching them that all people share […]

Travel warning: Don’t go with mom

My mom is well-known for leaving my sisters and me in the dust. My family and I will be doing any activity, you name it: Kayaking, walking, biking, hiking, shopping. Where’s mom? Oh, she’s wayyyyyy up there. You better keep up. If you’re on a hike and you are ready to head to the car, […]

these are a few of my favorite things: Tug Hill Vineyards + bestie visit

My dearest, dear friend came to visit us in NNY this past weekend. Liz is my bosom friend. We jive on a number of levels, but one of the main reasons I think we get along so well is because we adventure at the same pace. I very distinctly remember visiting Liz in Germany while […]

North / Central New York Waterfalls

We are wrapping up our time here in northern New York. And while it has been good to us, and we have enjoyed getting to know it and its people, I am SO excited about the next chapter. There’s a lot we will miss, there’s a lot of work to do, and I still have […]

when an adventure girl becomes an adventure mama

We had a big weekend over here! I blinked and Miles turned THREE! A lot has changed in the past few years. But nothing has changed more than the shift that occurred in the moment he came in to the world. I think probably any mother could tell you that upon giving birth, everything changes. […]

Olympic Peninsula Girl’s Trip

A good friend and I did an overnight in Port Angeles, WA one late May weekend. My husband will forever give me a hard time about this weekend, because it is the weekend that I ditched his going-away party at a very cool speakeasy, which happened to be the place we were introduced, before he […]

Olympic Peninsula Lakes Crescent and Quinault

This morning at the end of yoga class, when you’re just laying there feeling really good and relaxed and supposedly emptying your mind of everything (…isn’t that so difficult?), The memory of Lake Crescent on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula randomly popped into my head. As I lay there, I could picture it so vividly. . . […]

lake life: beautiful Lake Martin, Alabama

One of the best things about the South* is that it warms up real quick down there. When we lived in Georgia, we were lucky to have a good friend with a boat and by late April we were out playing on the water. Now, I’m a lake snob. I grew up where the lakes […]

four simple ways to explore more

This time of year is rough up here in the great North. We woke up to snow on the ground the other morning. Don’t get me wrong, I love the snow. I’ve said it once, I’m saying it again. But I feel like its so rude of Winter to creep on Spring. I’m big on […]