Here it is at the beginning of August and the kids are back in school already. How the times have changed. Back in my day I literally would trudge to school (Okay the local bus stop) uphill both ways in several feet of snow some days. In those days school did not start again until …
Vegas BC. (Before Covid)April first dawned like a terrible joke. I was so dizzy I could barely get out of bed, my head was pounding and I had no voice. Why yes, I had just returned from a few days of dancing all night in Vegas and quite possibly I sang along very loudly with …
Happy sports ball Sunday from the Hungry Mountaineer! Do I care who will win the big sports ball game? Not really. But I do care about inhaling some delicious Super Bowl foods after a very long winter of working hard and trekking many miles every day of the week. I normally work eight hours a …
As the Santa Ana winds kicked up to forty miles per hour gusts I knew I had to get the hell out of this mountain town, Big Bear Lake California. With most of the national forests closed in California how was this wanderlust-filled hiker supposed to fill her days? What is there to do if …
When it came to visiting Las Vegas in 2021 three things stood out to me; Pot, the face mask conscientious vigilantes and delicious food without breaking the bank. Taking a spring break holiday to Las Vegas during a global pandemic was an adventure to say the very least. But it wasn’t all a haze of …