Seneca Creek State Park, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Why would I not sign up for a 10k trail run after a few months of no running and not very much trail anything? I cannot think of a single reason why not. Some might say it is type 2 fun, but type 2 fun means it is kind of miserable during the activity and […]
Burke Lake Park Trail, Fairfax Station, Virginia
Did you know that Virginia has 70 lakes and reservoirs but only two of them are natural? The Great Dismal Swamp (yes, that is real) is home to one, and Mountain Lake is the other. The Great Dismal Swamp and Mountain Lake are the exact kind of names we all know I adore. It will […]
Scott’s Run Nature Preserve, McLean, Virginia
I am going to write a blog. Or so I keep saying I will. I am just not in it to win it. I work, workout, try to remember to eat, sleep fitfully, then rinse and repeat. It is really cool. We have been here three weeks and everything is great except me. So, that […]
America’s Historic Triangle: Part 1 (Yorktown and The Presidents Heads, Virginia)
When I was married to the boys’ father, we lived on the east coast for quite a bit. Between the two of us, the military had us (not in this order) in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, and Connecticut. I think that was all of them. During the years we lived […]
Washington DC
After four days in Charleston, South Carolina (find that here), Lolo, Last But Not Last, and I went to Washington DC to meet up with Thing One and spend a week there before Lolo had to return to Goose Creek, South Carolina to complete six more months of school at the Navy Nuclear Power Training […]