My husband and I haven’t been on a romantic weekend getaway since my best friend got married in Washington State and my oldest was 8-months-old. A date weekend was well overdue. We spent two nights and one whole day on a mini vacation while the kiddos stayed home with their nearest grandparents. Tahoe is spectacular! … Continue reading Romantic Weekend Getaway – South Lake Tahoe
Hike #9 for 2025 A NV State Park, Fort Churchill, hosted a “Trail Mixer” on National trail mix day, 8/31. They provided a humongous trail mix bar with a huge variety of nuts, seeds, dried fruit, and candy. After creating our own custom bags of trail mix, we went on a hike to trail test … Continue reading Trail Mix Hike
The Nevada State Parks department gives a free fifth grade adventure pass. Our youngest is in 5th grade this year and the pass is valid from August through August. Let’s see how many parks we can visit this year! Sand Harbor We made reservations for a day use parking spot on 9/14/24. It was $15. … Continue reading Nevada State Parks 2024-2025
This post is out of order, our surprise vacation was in mid-June. My husband is no longer working at two jobs. It’s a long and complicated story with a bottom line of - God provides! We started doing our “weeks of less” to give him some breathing room and prevent burnout since he was working … Continue reading Week of Less #3 – Surprise Vacation
This was one of those “one thing after another” camping trips. The propane regulator was leaking as we were loading the trailer. We stopped at Ace Hardware on the way to buy replacement parts and my hubs spent an hour fixing it in the parking lot. The back-in site was kinda hairy and it took … Continue reading Plasse’s Resort at Silver Lake, California
heavens to betty 