When I received an invitation to the Puddle Jumper Pool Party in Miami, I almost passed it up. Puddle Jumpers are flotation devices for young children learning to swim, and my boys are well past that stage. Read More …
I live in South Florida, and I forget how diverse this narrow peninsula really is. Just a few hundred miles North (300 to be exact), near the border with Georgia, we found the Gold Head Read More …
After our road trip from Miami to Lake Placid, going to St. Augustine for the weekend hardly seemed like a big deal. In fact, since this past summer, even my boys (ages 10 and 8) reconsider Read More …
I had always heard of Asheville when people talked about the mountains of North Carolina, but truth is, I found Boone to be much more charming. The smaller Boone gets its name from famous Daniel Read More …
It was not my idea to camp for four nights in Blue Bear Mountain, a campground near Todd, North Carolina in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. Though I have embraced camping as a mom of two Read More …
When Joe told me he’d like to go from Miami to Lake Placid by car I did not jump up for joy. Then he added, we could go camping in North Carolina to break up Read More …
I thought I had a great idea until I spoke to a friend. “Are you nuts?” Nuts seemed like a short but exaggerated word. All I did was tell her that Charly would be coming Read More …
The first time I ever camped was doing the Inca Trail in Peru, where you trek from Cuzco to Machu Pichu in four days. I was in my twenties. It sounds exotic and rough, and Read More …
You know you made a right choice of letting something go when it feels like a massive weight has been lifted off your shoulders. And I feel that way now. Sometimes you get so caught Read More …
When I got news from my sponsor Got Chocolate Milk that I would be competing in Ironman Arizona, Joe and I decided to travel the week following the race. I got some looks from the boys’ school, but Read More …
