We went to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden our first day. It’s very exclusive – you have to make reservations beforehand, and there’s no sign for the entrance. They have several layers of security docents with lists of people with reservations to go through before you can park and walk to the garden. It is…
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TRAVEL JOURNAL 4: Connecticut
[Confession – I didn’t realize I couldn’t correctly spell Connecticut until I started writing about it here- yikes!!! How did I get to my age this way?!] We did eventually end up in Connecticut, using our vintage 1973 Connecticut state map, with advertisements along the edge for businesses that had closed decades ago. We stayed…
TRAVEL JOURNAL: Pennsylvania
The following parts of our trip were not documented, due to the phone charging cord having become lost under the seats of the car, so you will just have to imagine our uneventful drive over to French Creek State Park in Elverson, Pennsylvania, with us listening to Tress of the Emerald Sea read aloud by…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 2: Virginia
We had already been here on our last camping venture up North a couple of years ago – this time at least we had invested in a new camp stove, and we didn’t have to worry about a propane explosion like last time! It gives me confidence to know some life problems CAN be solved!…
Travel Journal 1: North Carolina
The girls and I have forsaken Florida at the moment, and the triple-digit summer, and life problems, etc, for perhaps one of our last travel adventures all together! As great as this sounds, things can still get a little contentious several hours into an 8-hour car ride, believe it or not. Our first stop was…
Travel Journal : Washington State
I apologize for the silence – I’ve been up to so much lately! In November, Rose and I flew across the country to visit some very dear friends for a week. It was one of those vacations where you don’t sight see much, but you just have tons of fun (and catch up on rest)….
Travel Journal 8: Chincoteague
When I was 10 I read Misty of Chincoteague, and it began for me a love of reading horse stories. When I was planning our trip and looking for state parks to stay at, Kiptopeke State Park came up, on the Southern end of the Delmarva peninsula, and a reasonable drive to the island of…
Travel Journal 7: Big Meadows
After Monticello, we got to enjoy our camping spot at Big Meadows in the Big Shenandoah National Forest the second day. We weren’t quite expecting the very, very rusticness of it – nor the tons of dog poo all over our camp site, but the rangers were really nice and cleaned it all up for…
Travel Journal 6: Monticello
The drive through Virginia from Fairy Stone State Park to Big Meadows was lovely. I really like Virginia. The scenery is so very pretty and pastoral. There were so many little farms and fields we passed along the country roads. For years now, whenever I saw an interesting historical seed variety grown by Thomas Jefferson,…
Travel Journal 5: Fairy Stone State Park
We made it up to Virginia, but awfully late because we had lingered so long in Asheville. Nothing terrible happened on this drive except for the usual sibling squabbles and listening to Nightcore. It was almost dark when we got there, but we tossed up the Green Goblin (one of the other campers even helped…
Travel Journal 4: Asheville
We had a blast in Asheville. We stayed in a little cabin on my friend Sabrina’s beautiful homestead a short drive from the city. She’s been homesteading here for six years now, and this is the first time I’ve visited! She is an herbalist, and her garden is full of magical blooming herbs, all covered…
Travel Journal 3: Cloud Canyon
Our next stop was Cloud Canyon. That evening the Green Goblin went up easier than ever before, especially since there was a super handy big rock to pound the stakes in. It wasn’t until dinner that things started to get a little hairy. I was making something i would never make at home, but made…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 