Category Archives: Hiking

A Day at the Capes

It’s still raining when we reach North Carolina, but the coastline lacks the crying clouds, so we’re able to spend the day exploring two capes — places we lived close to for years while stationed in Norfolk, but somehow hadn’t … Continue reading

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Chiricahua to Fort Stockton

We awoke at Bonita Canyon Campground and started the morning with the sun on the Massai Point Nature Trail. Many of the rhyolite hoodoos are still in the shade, but the formations these silica-rich extrusive igneous rocks create are mesmerizing. … Continue reading

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Over the Hills and Through the Flames

Our plan was to meet in Tampa and go diving in Clearwater for three days, the first of which will have diving canceled at 8:30 am (after the fishermen go out for an update and to catch lunch) due to … Continue reading

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Friendly Falls

Q&A: Do you have any new friends? I wouldn’t consider them friends yet, but we are choosing to spend more time together. Woke up and packed up to the smell of coffee. I sipped on it and burned my tongue … Continue reading

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Piggy Princess Permanent Palace

Eight and a half years or 101 months ago, to be more exact, can be considered the blink of an eye or a long time, a lifetime for some. We (Caleb, Sparky, and I) had moved to Florida and settled … Continue reading

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