Trip Recaps
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Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – 2024
If you’ve been here a while, you know my sister, some girlfriends and I have been going to Martha’s Vineyard every summer for the last handful of years. While we have a lot of traditions we stick to every year, we do try to mix it up with some new activities. Our 8th annual trip started…
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Penobscot, Maine – 2024
Staying close with friends from childhood can be hard. You change and grow over the years and maybe someone you were close with as a kid is no longer someone you feel aligned with as an adult. But the friendships that stand the test of time, the ones that ebb and flow with age, those…
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 2024
Two of my closest friends from Maine – Claire and Mary – are sisters. They are both so inspiring and smart and work so hard in the social justice sphere. Because of their careers, they’ve lived in other parts of the country in recent years so I don’t get to see them as often as…
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Colorado Road Trip: Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Rocky Mountain National Parks – 2024
We knew on our quest to visit all 63 US National Parks that we’d be making our way to Colorado, which we were really looking forward to. My friend Liz (she appears in my hiking recaps frequently) had moved to a suburb of Denver in 2019 and was nice enough to offer her house as…
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Midwestern Road Trip: Chicago, Indiana Dunes National Park & Cuyahoga Valley National Park – 2023
While I prefer to be in nature when traveling, I do like exploring cities too! In 2018 Jarrett and I went to Chicago for a long week, primarily to cheer on our friend Colleen running the Chicago Marathon. In October 2023, she ran the Chicago Marathon for the 2nd time. Since we had enjoyed our…
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Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – 2023
The summer is always jam packed with different trips and activities but one constant is the girls getaway to Martha’s Vineyard. We always start early in the morning, leaving my house at 3:30 a.m. to make sure we make our 6 a.m. ferry on time. Normally the drive is uneventful and easy, however, this year…
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Hut Hiking in Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire – 2023
Franconia Ridge is a well-known hiker destination in New Hampshire which connects 4 of the 48 4,000 footers – Flume, Liberty, Lincoln and Lafayette. We didn’t hit Flume or Liberty but we could see them down the ridge. The hike across the ridge was incredible. I felt like I was on top of the world!
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Girls Trip to Maine – 2023
June was an emotional month for me. I was obviously feeling raw after Jarrett and I had to put Carter down, and the weeks leading up to that were heartbreaking as well. Unfortunately, June was also the busiest month of the summer for me. A few days after we said goodbye to Carter, I had…
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Brooklyn, New York – 2023
I’ve always been a runner, even as a kid. My dad always used to tell me “Run like the wind!” While I’m not as fast as I was a kid or a teenager, that love of running has stuck with me. I’ve done countless 5Ks, 10Ks, relays and half marathons. I had to take time…
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Dog-friendly Road Trip to Shenandoah, Congaree and New River Gorge National Parks – 2023
This was the hardest blog post for me to write – which is why I’ve been putting it off for months. And before I can even dive into the story about our trip, I need to go into a little bit of a backstory, so please bear with me. Back in 2012, Jarrett and I…
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