Posts Tagged ‘hiking’

Inspiration Monday – Zion National Park

We spent the past week in Utah with The Parents. Hiking at Zion National Park was definitely the highlight of the trip. Zion National Park is absolutely gorgeous. The rock formations, the numerous hikes and the geological, Native American and settlers history of the area is so interesting to me, We took the Riverside Walk, [...]

Carlsbad Caverns (and exhaustion)

Yes, it was amazing. Surreal, actually. A bit like being on a movie set (especially when you walk up on the diner and gift shop 750+ feet underground – seriously?). It *almost* “took my breath away”…but it’s not as if I can live there so it wouldn’t count anyway. The formations were incredible and the [...]

Escaping the Heat…?

Our local unschooling group meets weekly, rain or shine…which usually means shine. I think it’s been several months since it’s rained and the idea of escaping the heat for “park day” was too great a temptation. We decided to head up to the mountains for hiking and playing in the stream (or is it a [...]

On Our Own Today

Zeb made the choice last week to quit our local Life Learners (unschooling) groups. I’m sorta the leader but I didn’t worry about theĀ logistics when my son was talking. He’s been making a lot of maturity strides and running into some walls along the way. Some of it seemed to be labels he was either [...]

Nature Journaling

Sharing a journal for pinecones, originally uploaded by OrganicSister. I have been so inspired by Amanda Soule’s The Creative Family lately. Today we ventured out to Mt Charleston to escape the heat – and the house – and do some Nature Journaling. We each received our very own sketchbook to use on these special occasions [...]