A Leap Off the Itinerary – Visiting Lemon Fair Sculpture Park
Soon after Kendra and I got engaged, we spent six weeks living and traveling in Europe. Though we never voiced our concerns, we knew it was one of those experiences that would make or...
Category: Vermont
Finding Love in the Green Mountains
We took the kids hiking yesterday, hitting up one of our favorite trails from last summer – the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail in Ripton, Vermont. The trail is unique in that Robert Frost’s poetry is...
Eight Family-Friendly Activities in Middlebury, VT
We spent our summer living just outside of Middlebury, a little town of just over 8,000 people in the western part of Vermont. With three kids five and under, we spent a lot of time...
Biking the Island Line Rail Trail in Burlington, VT
[box]Location: Burlington, Vermont Date: July 22, 2015 Distance: 15.05 miles round trip Elevation Gain: 78 feet Our Bicycling Time: 3 hours 24 minutes round trip Difficulty: Easy Trail Map[/box] Don’t let the amount of time we took to ride...
Biking the Delaware & Hudson Rail Trail in VT
[box]Location: Castleton to Poultney, Vermont Date: July 5, 2015 Distance: 14.45 miles round trip Elevation Gain: 131 feet Our Bicycling Time: 2 hours 14 minutes round trip Difficulty: Easy Trail Map[/box] Kendra has a lot of homework for her summer...
Hiking the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail in Vermont
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Robert Frost Interpretive Trail, Ripton, VT Date: July 2, 2015 Distance: 1.13 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 65 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: Blue Diamonds Difficulty: Easy Trail Map[/box] For several weeks this summer,...
Happy 4th of July from Vermont!
Since as far back as I can remember, my family has celebrated 4th of July at my Auntie Debbie and Uncle Jerry’s house. Picture a huge pool party – cousins swimming, uncles grilling, and aunts...
Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer!
When I was a kid, cancer seemed like a foreign subject – something rare and tragic. It wasn’t until it touched my own family that I realized the insidiousness of the disease… too often there are no...