Finally made it to Watkins Glen. For years I have been intending to visit here and for whatever reason, it’s been avoiding me. People have been asking me if I have ever been to Watkins Glen for fifteen years and now I finally know what they were talking about. Watkins Glen is a state park…

Six years ago, I made a mental note that I thought I had found the greatest campground in Pennsylvania. I always planned to come back just to make sure I hadn’t enforced some sort of Covid bias on my claims. Turns out, I was right. Willow Bay In the Allegheny National Forest is one of…

We spent the weekend camping, kayaking, hiking, and biking. The weather has been perfect but the campgrounds are empty, the best recipe for camping. We woke up early and went biking over the appropriately named “Humps and Bumps” trail, the very attraction that had the boys begging us to come back to this campground. After…

After a cold and snowy winter, the bus has been begging to break out of hibernation and hit the roads. Eighty degrees at the beginning of April, I am happy to oblige. We used this three day weekend to venture a few hours away to the Laurel Highlands, a wilderness with endless opportunities for fun.…

If you don’t have a burning preference for where you make camp and you don’t  have young children to worry about then you can still wing it daily in a pre Covid style, wandering aimlessly around the country planning only where to go each day while already on your way. However, if you desire to…

The best photographer I know is Scavenger The Elder. We met while hiking the Appalachian trail and became tramily fairly quickly and nine years later I am lucky to call him one of my best friends. Whenever he visits, it feels like I just had a professional photographer follow us around documenting my family growing…

When Amy and I first moved across the country, we realized one of the major drawbacks was that we had no family to spend Thanksgiving with. We decided to distract ourselves we would get a cheap cabin out in the woods and relax together to celebrate in a whole new way. It was perhaps our…

With endless places to explore in central Pennsylvania we decided to hike at one of our beautiful state parks. When Amy isn’t drooling over strange geology she ogles over strange weather events. So today I dove deep into the maps to find her both. In 1985 a rare massive f5 tornado whirled through this area…

One of my favorite spots to visit on Earth happens to sit a mere 2.5 hours away from home and I intend to visit every chance I can get. Amy snapped this beautiful picture of General Meade in the early morning hours during her run. Every time I visit, I leave feeling better about the…