HikeBikeFlyRV Blog

I'm a planner. Can't help it. It's what I do. I sit and pontificate for hours about what area of the country we should travel to next, where we should camp, what we should see, things we should eat; followed by explanations of why we need to travel there and camp where we should camp, and see what we should see, and eat what we should eat. I also ...

On Tuesday we took a hike that was both the best hike I've ever taken, and the worst hike I've ever taken. We had driven from Hancock Campground to a trail parking lot that was across from Lafayette Campground in New Hampshire. The plan was to just putz around the easy hike/bike path that runs through Franconia Notch and The Basin along I93 north ...

We made it to the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Right now we are in the Lincoln/Conway area which is a fairly touristy area with lots of winter skiing. The hiking here is outstanding, and the views are wonderful.

Initially we were headed towards Maine, but unless you're headed towards Acadia NP, there doesn't seem to be a lot of camping ...

We left our winter home of Open Pond two months ago in early February. We thought we'd be moseying our way northward pretty quickly, but instead we've spent quite a bit of time in the Georgia and South Carolina area this spring, waiting for warmer weather. There's been quite a bit of late winter weather all over the country this year. Just two days ...

Sorry if you thought this was going to be an existential essay on the meaning of life, why mankind is put on this planet and our place in this universe, but I'm only writing today about why we're here at the Open Pond campground, and why we've stayed here for so long this winter.

First of all, we love it here. No secret there. If nothing else ...