The Gap of Dunloe and Killarney, Ireland – Day 10
Today, I woke up, ate cereal, and put on my socks and shoes for our day’s adventures. We hopped in the car, and I sat in the way back with Kate the Great. When...
Category: National Parks
Hiking in Connemara National Park, Ireland – Day 6
Hello broskis! Today. Was. Tiring (and also kinda cool); keep reading until the end of this blog because I’m your FAVORITE PERSON EVER!!!! Okay. So. I woke up at 9:00am, got dressed, visited a...
Exploring Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
This weekend we started our epic East Coast 2014 summer road trip. Well, epic for two moms, almost one-year-old twins, and a 4-year-old. On Saturday we traveled to Pennsylvania. It was a long day in...
Lowell Folk Festival: A Celebration of Culture
I was a 14-year-old seasoned Junior Park Ranger when the first Lowell Folk Festival was held in 1990. It was a spinoff of the National Folk Festival, which was held in Lowell from 1987-1989....
North America’s Best Campgrounds: Dolly Copp Campground in Gorham, NH
One of our favorite campgrounds – Dolly Copp – is tucked away in the White Mountain National Forest, just outside of Gorham, NH. Kendra camped here as a young kid with her parents and...
Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013!
2012 was an exciting year for us. We took Addie overseas for the first time in February, along with 18 of our inner-city students, spending time in both London and Paris. The highlights of our...
5 Things for Families to do in our National Parks!
We are so fortunate to have a national system of almost 400 protected historical, urban, and natural sites spread throughout our country. Since 1916, the U.S. National Park Service has provided the world with many...
And then we were a wolfpack of four…
We had a slow start yesterday morning – Addison had an early morning poo-plosion. I won’t got into the details – I think the name is descriptive enough. Anyway, it resulted in a hotel...
Arches National Park
After breakfast at the hotel, we headed to Arches National Park! We spent the morning doing short, easy hikes to various natural sandstone arches.Yet again, the scenery was gorgeous! There are over 2,000 arches...
Alpine Lake Hike and Lehman Caves
We packed up the campsite early and headed up to the Visitor’s Center to buy tickets for a tour of Lehman Caves. Our next stop was the cafe next door, where we had egg...