A few weeks ago, we had the fun of visiting an arboretum just outside of Chester, New Jersey. We’d visited Willowwood Arboretum once before – in the late spring – so we were all looking forward to seeing if it…


A few weeks ago, we had the fun of visiting an arboretum just outside of Chester, New Jersey. We’d visited Willowwood Arboretum once before – in the late spring – so we were all looking forward to seeing if it…

Recently, I’ve been experimenting with drying applesauce (or making a kind of DIY apple fruit leather, if you’d like to use that terminology). It really tastes delicious, is healthy, and would make a great trail snack – but I don’t…

In the early days of Aviation, there wasn’t radar, radios were finicky, aerial photography didn’t exist, and pilots had little choice but to know landmarks as best as they could from the sky. Thus, when transcontinental flight began to “take…

A while ago, I did a review on the stove I use for camping, which at the time was the Coleman Sportster Duel Fuel Backpacking Stove. However, on our last camping trip, one of the two stoves (yes, we bring…