Not a specific place, more of a state of mind. We took a short camping trip this week, and just getting outside, listening to the rain on the roof of the van at night, watching the stars(most of which were obscured by the half moon on this trip), and waking…
A short review of Van Buren State Park camping and hiking facilities
This is a stitched pano of the over hang cave.(5/09/2018) Prints of this picture can be purchased HERE.
On the way home from Pennsylvania on Sunday we stopped by Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park to do a little hiking. It’s a neat area that sort of reminds me of Split Rocks at Camp Oty’okwa. The rocks here have much larger stones embedded in the sandstone, so it almost feels…
It started out as a trip to the Circleville Pumpkin Show. We had never been to it before and I was told that if you get there early on the first day that the crowds wouldn’t be too bad. So here we were, around noon on Wednesday, driving around Circleville…
Years ago I read a story titled “Loving our Parks to Death.” It was talking about how many people were visiting Yosemite NP, and how the shear number of people was hurting the environment and how the experience of visiting the park was degraded by the crowds. I was reminded…
On September 4th I finally managed to get Julia out on a hike. Her mom and Mike came out with us as well. We first visited Whispering cave in the Hocking Hills. This new trail opened up in the spring, but it hasn’t taken long for people to find it.…
This weekend I went on a camping trip with the Central Ohio Photographic Society. It was a fun but exhausting weekend. Friday night we shot the Milkyway. It wasn’t very easy to see on the lake, so we ventured to the old school house where we were able to do…
This spring Hocking Hills State Park opened 2 new trails. The Hemlock Bridge trail features a swinging suspension bridge, and the Whispering Cave trail is a spur trail to the second largest overhang cave in the park. I missed their grand opening, but on June 6th I finally managed to…
This my third year going up to Magee Marsh for the annual bird migration. We visited May 14-17 after the “Big Week”. It is a beautiful area that offers excellent opportunities to see Warblers and lots of other birds that aren’t usually easy to see. When I say Magee Marsh,…
