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,...
A Surprise Return Visit to a Beloved Place—Cumberland Mountain State Park
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....
Sometimes You Have to Look Up to See the Beauty—Window Cliffs State Park
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...
Reliving Special Memories—Fall Creek Falls
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...
Views from the Bottom – Cummins Falls
“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...
A Short Day Trip with Loads of Grace-Filled Memories
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...
Supernatural Signs on an Unexpected Stop
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: Part 1—Plan to Fall
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...
Christmas in July – Getting to Talk to Grandma on Time
Our Christmas Cabin Last Christmas was our second one together—we've been married almost two years now. We got to Celebrate Christ's birth by combining lots of traditions and making some new ones. We celebrated with family before and after the big day. But on the 25th...
3 Kinds of Debriefing after a Hike
Sunset on Period Key—we try to work in a sunset every day on the trail. 1. Literally de-brief—we remove all clothing at the door and put them directly into the washing machine. This is a good practice that we didn’t always do. One time after a hike I was babysitting...