Beware of Ticks When Hiking or Camping
Two tools of tick prevention: long socks and tape lint rollers. Find tick identification photos at the web links in post. Oh, breathe in that fresh spring air! It makes …
When a National Park Temporarily Closes a Trail
If National Park rangers close a trail, they are not trying to ruin your vacation no matter how much mom complains. *Ahem!* The trail is closed for a reason. Case …
Nutrition on the Trail: The Lunchtime Saga
Of course they’re tired on the trail. It was the third week of peanut butter and jelly. Many times we camp as a family for …
Filling the Heart with Memories
Our children at the Pocono House Although we never camped outside in the wintertime, we would take the family to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania seeking snow. Usually we’d leave December …
Arches National Park, Utah
Hiking the desert of Arches National Park Maturity showed in our five children as we drove westward. They had changed their cry from “Are we there yet?” to “How many …