When it comes to camping, everybody has to start somewhere. Usually, there are hijinks involved, bears break into coolers and someone always freezes their ass off. I’ve camped with a lot of newbie campers. Yes, they are usually the first ones to not listen and have the bears eat all their food the first night. …
When world travelers talk about Toronto they talk about hockey or catching a Jay’s game. They don’t mention an extremely overcrowded sweaty city with an undercurrent of social unrest building in the eves. There are not many things I miss from our adventures over two weeks in Toronto, Ontario. (I mean besides besides my boyfriend’s …
I’ve always loved the snow. Even when I was ten years old and instead of playing with my friends I was shoveling the driveway. No one in our 90’s era working-class neighborhood had a snow blower, certainly not my family. Our mountain neighborhood was always quiet when I was outdoors shoveling feet of snow, which …
I think I just crossed a line. A line into crazy cat lady territory. I clicked the orange button, buy now! Ship at once! Oh, Amazon, you had me again. It was too late to go back. I really am a crazy cat lady now. I just bought a leash and harness for my twenty-pound …
I must be the only nutwalla in Big Bear Lake California! In all of my adventures around the Big Bear Valley, I have never run into another ethnic seller of nuts. I’m also lucky enough to be the Big Bear Valley’s only hiking guide and outdoor Jeep adventure guide. Life is good when you are …