Tag: nature

Planning Your First Trip to Shenandoah National Park: What You Need to Know

Looking to plan a trip to Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park? Want the inside scoop? I just solo road tripped there last weekend! It was my first time in the park, and I’d love to share my experience! I was super excited to visit since everyone on the Internet will tell you fall in SNP is …

How to do a plastic free Halloween

As a self-proclaimed Halloween aficionado, I felt it was my responsibility to write this post. Halloween is my second favorite holiday (after Christmas, of course). I trick-or-treated until a ridiculous age because who doesn’t love dressing up and getting free candy? Not to mention with things like haunted houses, scary movies, and the Monster Mash, …

A Local Adventure – Stoneleigh

I am a big believer that literature informs travel and vice versa. In The Writing Life Annie Dillard asks, “why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our …

Why Hiking is One of the Best Day Trips Right Now

*disclaimer please make sure to do research on area specific COVID-19 policies before traveling I just got back from hiking Acadia National Park and I’m probably not the first to tell you, it is a beautiful work of nature. I took a day trip up from southern Maine and hiked Bubble Rock, Jordan Pond and …