Bonfire burning bright! As fascinated as I was reading from Jack London as a child, I’m not going to retell To Build a Fire. I am, however, going to address the art of bringing back the flame when it has almost died out. Let’s pretend that you built a fire in a fire...
Sleeping Comfortably with Big Agnes
the Mother of Comfort... No Silly! My Honey is fit and cute—Big Agnes is the name of her sleeping mat. Sleeping comfort is probably the most important thing to get worked out. You could argue that staying warm in winter and cool in summer or that eating for sustained...
Fantastical Fireflies—His Perspective
If you want to see a fantastical phenom, win a pass to go see the synchronous fireflies in the Great Smokey Mountain National Forest just behind Elkmont Campground. It is like walking into C.S.Lewis’s Narnia gone SciFi. It was whimsical, magical, spectacular, awe...
Thousands of Fireflies Make the Woods Magical
A Guestpost by Loral Pepoon (Honey) Something magical happens when you don’t know what to expect and an experience ends up being far better than you could have imagined. We happened to get lucky and snag the last campsite in the Smokey Mountains at Elkmont campground,...
Princess Loral Loves Part Primitive
My Honey is part princess—the kind that you would normally think of—glamours dresses, jewelry and makeup. She is also the princess who can rule over her feelings and desires to endure some hardship to get to see the beauty out in nature that she loves so much. ...
Why Do I Want My Honey on the Trail With Me?
Today, as I read my Honey’s blog that she posted last night at cowriterpro.com - her business site, I felt inspired to answer this question in the title of today's blog. Here is what my quotable Queen said in her blog: “So what can I do, today, to affect the spreading...
A Beautiful “Do Over” Moonlit Night
"Our favorite time of light when the sun kisses the night" “Fighting is terrible but at least you get to make up,” someone said to me once. I’m not a big fan of this idea but when making up follows real resolution, I’m all about that. Still seated in the...
9 Ways to Decorate Your Camp Site
Decorating Diva 🙂 What? Decorate? Who knew? Come on guys - tell me the truth. How many of you knew that pitching a tent was considered decorating? Or maybe I'm just the only guy that didn't get this. My Honey and I used to fight or at least be at odds over setting...
We Did it Our Way!
It’s not my way. It’s not your way. It’s our way! Natchez Trace where we learned to do it OUR WAY! Both of us are at least 40 and I’ll be 50 this December. We both have figured out by this point in our lives how to do all that need to be done. Our methods and...