rainy rucky rugby and the american revolution
>And today, Chris played a rugby game in Boston. Do you know the history of rugby? It started in a soccer match at Rugby Boarding School in England in 1823. ...
Category: INSPIRATIONS
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Harvest Festival and other festivities
> Saturday Chris and I and two of our New Yorker friends went to a Harvest Festival in Old York Village. People get so much more into the seasons up here- it...
mud on the tires
We drove the truck down a dirty dirt/rock road in the mountains for several miles at 40 mins till dusk. We were feeling pretty darn adventurous. We parked by a ...
rock climbing>hiking>log cabin
>I top rope climbed a 35 ft. rock! We drove down this backwood, potholed, dirt road then hiked a big hill to this sweet wall, anchored in, and climbed a few ...
October II: Pumpkin
I had to buy pumpkins. So I stopped at a 300 year old farm-orchard called Emery and poured myself a $.50 cider then scouted the patch. This is a bonified pumpki...
October I
I climbed an aspen tree. The sun shone through the bright yellow leaves and made me feel like Glinda in the middle of a glowing bubble. My favorites are the sug...
Expeditionary visit with mom
>1) We went to the Tulluride by the Sea film festival at thein Portsmouth. Neat old theater. We saw Coco Avant Chanel, a very good indep. French film starrin...
Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park
>A fellow Aggie-Coast Guard wife-temp. Mainer and I drove to Bar Harbor (adorable) and Acadia (wowingly georgeous) for a day trip. Acadia is where those ninc...
Nubble Lighthouse
>Earlier today, when I was “returning” from York School Dept, I accidentally turned north instead of south. oops. I figured this out when i saw N...
Today, I saw 5 whales and 4 people throw up.
>I went whale watching in the Gulf of Maine with the youth group today! He maketh me chaperon fun youth trips;He leadeth me upon not-so-still waters.Yea, tho...
Food, Music and History
I got in from my long trip at 9pm. It was actually a little cold here in Maine. I had to to put on a cardigan and my pretty purple knee length light coat with a...
September
>I leaned back and sighed to myself “aaaa last plane ride for 4 mos” and smiled. Then i realized that there’s no one waiting for me this ti...
Gate D49 to Hispaniola
>We didn’t really do a whole lot of expewhateveryoucallthems. We mostly lounged around the resort and stared at each other. haha. Chris said he didn...
Here to there to the other there
I tallied things up on the plane. I have been on 9 airplane-involving trips in the past 8 months: NYC third date-Dec/Jan Proposal in ME-Feb CO ski trip-March ho...
Motorcycle trip winds down
and down and down and down and then back up and up and up and up the Bear Tooth Highway. This road was ridiculous! We zigzagged like 4-5 laps up the side of the...
Motorcycling Post-Canada
>This morning, we drove through Glacier Natl Park of the U.S. So I got to compare ours to Canada’s. haha. as for number and size of glaciers, Canada wi...
Motorcycling in CANADA
> We crossed the border into Oliver Valley, British Columbia. A sign said that the valley is “the wine capital of Canada.” It went on for miles a...
From Above
Flying to Oregon, we flew over the Great Salt Lake and the salt flats. It was one of the funniest looking things I have ever seen. I wrote that “The water...
Panarama from a motorcycle
Motorcycling through Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Riding on a motorcycle is a ...
Salem means Peace.
>heading back from Boston, I drove through good ole Salem, Mass. There, I dropped by the House Seven Gables (Hawthorne novel) among other things and statues....
Carter’s visit
>My 16-yr-old brother left today.Day one in Boston was the the most adventurous. We wondered around the historic district and into the oldest restaurant in A...
UNH BIKE TRAIL CHRONICLES
>We drove out to UNH so Chris could practice throwing the 16 lb. metal ball 180 ft like normal.Then, we decided to ride our bikes onto a pretty forest bike t...
Ascent of Mt. Morgan and Mt. Percival
>Oh Oh! We went hiking with our new friends Mark and Lindsey the on Saturday! We made a 5.5 mile loop to one summit, across a ridge, and down from the other ...
Portland for the Day
>The sky in Portland, ME in gray. Well, just because it was gray yesterday doesn’t mean it is grey all the time, right? Actually, Lindsey Allen said it...
Yesterday Boston. Tomorrow Portland.
>Boston is an hour south of Kittery. Chris and I spent the whole day there yesterday We parked for free at the coast guard base (now doesn’t that work ...
Lobster Boats in Morning Mist
I decided to walk to the coffee shop this morning. I crossed the Memorial bridge at low tide. 8:15am. The white fog was still lingering over the water. I had ne...
Free Date
>Well Chris and I got a present last night. The musical Guys and Dolls was showing at the Ogunquit Playhouse (Ogunquit is a really cool beach town in Maine- ...
hiking in the white mountains
>I hiked Mt Major with my new friend, Meghan this past weekend. I was pretty proud of my physical aptitude. I made it to the top of the (1,786 feet) mountain...
I wrote a song.
>Search me oh God in my thoughts and in my heart (Psalm 139:23-24)For from the overflow of my heart my mouth speaks. (Matthew 12:34b) Repeat CHORUS:Lord open...
the yellow kayak
>We rented a sea kayak! How adventuresome we are. After church, it was a little rainy and foggy and cold but we threw on sweatshirts and took the kayak out a...