Category: Adventures, not Vacations

Read part 1 of this list here. 4. Picnicking on peaches Googling on the road led us to a fantastic u-pick peach orchard in South Carolina. Their prices made us feel like highway robbers. We paid them double what they asked and still counted ourselves lucky. Scott ate the best peach of his life. Err… 9 of them while we […]

Last summer, we packed up the house we had lived in for seven years, said goodbye to all our friends and loaded up into our Subaru Outback. We had 3 car seats across the back, 1 rooftop carrier filled with camping stuff we would never end up using, a 5 year old, a 2 1/2 year old, a 10 month […]

Western Canada is just plain wonderful. I love the scenery and the people, and I’ve enjoyed every day I’ve spent there. My family’s yearly reunion was in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island earlier this summer. We all stayed in a big cabin and played in the creek in the back, met the friendly neighbors and their friendly animals, and let […]