If you are a friend or family member, you may have read this Hiking with Your Honey blog when we started it five years ago. We had dreams of leaving our day jobs by monetizing this blog and getting accommodations and meals for free to in exchange for reviews. However,...
As we approached Nana’s farm, our AirBnB central to six impressive Tennessee waterfalls, we got an unexpected surprise. We passed by a beloved place—Cumberland Mountain State Park. This place was special to us because we were last there to celebrate Christmas in 2015....
Before our 6th anniversary hiking trip where we were going to see six waterfalls in six days, we had read a review that said, “Be sure to look up at the overlook to see the Window Cliffs, or you might miss it.” Sure enough, after we had hiked about two miles, we...
One of the reasons I wanted to go on this waterfall tour for our sixth anniversary was because I wanted to re-experience the elation that I had four years earlier at Fall Creek Falls touching the tallest waterfall West of the Mississippi Not only did I touch it, but...
“I descended to the roots of the mountains. Jonah 2:6 The earth with its bars was around me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God. Sometimes the Best Journeys are along the Bottom of the Trail—Cummins Falls When we set out on a six-day...
Five Is the number of grace, so on the fifth day of our six-day waterfall tour, we decided to give ourselves some grace and to take it easy all morning, and just do a small trip in the afternoon that was close to where we were staying at Nana’s Farm, an Airbnb in...
Not Ready for Our Trip to End… We had just wrapped up a wonderful, six-day waterfall tour. As we left our AirBnb at Nana’s Farm, in Pikeville, Tennessee, and started our way home on Saturday, September 12, 2020, just before noon, we weren’t quite ready for our...
Hike Like a Goat This 7 part series came out of a conversation that my Honey and I had about being sure footed on the trail. She wanted to leave the fear of falling behind with all of its timidness and tentativeness. In other words she wanted to Walk Like a Goat. When...
A lovely romantic fire on Christmas Eve Honey's Perspective The first time I (Loral) saw my Hiker build a fire in the woods was mind boggling. Here are several things I felt—and still feel every time! Where am I and what year is it?I felt like I had been transported...
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,...