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...
Fate? Coincidence? Or a Sign From the Universe?
Scanning through the radio stations on my drive home tonight, a song caught my ear. I had no idea what it was, but the sound was vaguely reminiscent of one of my old favorites – Suzanne Vega....
5 Tips for Canoeing With Teens
Last week Kendra and I took 16 kids from our Outdoor Adventure Club canoeing in a local state forest. For most of the kids, it was their first time in a canoe. Like every...
National Trails Day 2015 With Tubbs Snowshoes!
Every year on the first Saturday of June, thousands of people across the United States celebrate National Trails Day, an annual event organized by the American Hiking Society. This is a day for folks to...
An Open Letter to Medical Professionals from a Lesbian Mom
Sometimes I wonder if sharing our conception stories with others in such a public venue is a good idea. Then I get emails like this (shared with permission from the author): I have been...
Family Adventure at Ramblewild Aerial Park
These days, it’s not often Kendra and I go on an adventure without our kids. When we told our neighbors we were headed to Ramblewild, an aerial adventure park in Western Massachusetts, they joked that it...