Will O' the Wisp
Travel Blogs from Oakland
Day 16- Home again
... back over the mountains in on and off rain and home shortly after dark that night. Great ending to a great trip!
Review:
To stay on a small budget, we could have continued camping at Acadia and still have had a wonderful trip! However, as we are getting older, we decided to 1) Go for the distance now (Maritime Canada) and 2) not exhaust ourselves putting up and taking down a ...
Day 1-Packed up and ready to go!
Our little Suzuki is all packed and ready for our journey. It holds a large tent and camping gear, a 15 foot inflatable Sea Eagle kayak and kayaking equipment, our clothes, snacks, and hopefully all we need for comfortable traveling and camping! Luckily (and somewhat remarkably) there is still plenty of room in the front of the car for the two of us to travel very comfortably.
Very important ...
The Deep Creek Adventure
Hello Hayley, The Only Person Who Reads My Blog. This past week I went to deep creek, and instead of doing a different entry for everything I did, I'll just sum it up here.
We went White Water Rafting, which consisted of a lot of paddling, a lot of screaming, and yes, I fell in. But it was fun. There were a ton of really scary rapids, but the whole fun of it was that it was it was daring.There was this girl there that had ...
Preparing to leave.
Preparing to leave. Updates on the Route and Pictures to come soon :)
As I was preparing to leave I had to wish my garden well and say good by to my sacred plants.
This is the state that I left them in:
Ancient Pod Corn: Over 6 feet tall already!! Thought to have been extinct, but is clearly doing great in ...
Fort Necessity, guess which war?!
... road.
In it's heyday the National Road contained Inns at stops along the way. The Fort Necessity National Park contains one of these Inn's, named for George Washington. It still sits along the road and is open to tour. Now that we have been made aware of the National Road I think we are going to have to figure out how to travel it from end to end at some point. Nothing like, literally, traveling the path of ...