Runners * Explorers * Dream Chasers
This is a throwback to the late summer of 2019 when we took a road trip to the UP in Copper Harbor, Michigan. I realized that I had never written a blog story about this experience since it was made into a home video at the time. We had a wonderful trip with our friend […]
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It seemed like a great afternoon for a bike ride. The weather was overcast and cloudy with a cooler 80 degrees compared to some of the really hot July temperatures we have been having lately. We were eager to ride one of our favorite local bike paths just 30 minutes away on the Oak Savannah […]
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The John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan has been a place of nostalgia for us since we first visited almost a decade ago in 2013. Derek and I have made a lot of memories together going to zoos, aquariums, and wildlife sanctuaries over the years which has evolved into our passion for birding on […]
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A rainy day on vacation is typically seen as a wasted day, but this wasn’t a typical vacation. On the morning that we had planned to hike, we sat on the back porch before breakfast contemplating the weather forecast. In Hartfield, VA, there is a chance of rain and thunderstorms almost every day this time […]
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At the top of our wish list for the River House trip was hiking with the family. Dale and Ginny are avid “nature people” and we wanted to trek a trail with them since we had never before explored the natural environment of Eastern Virginia. With much consideration for the hiking possibilities in the coastal […]
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The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary: a body of water where fresh and saltwater mix. It is the largest of more than 100 estuaries in the United States and the third largest in the world. The Piankatank is one of the many rivers that empties into the Chesapeake from Maryland to Virginia. It is a […]
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The salty scent of brackish water wafts through the air as Belted Kingfishers dive occasionally into the Piankatank River for their next meal. A small patch of towering trees shade the elderly cat who gingerly puts one paw in front of the other to bridge the distance to the dock. Uncle Dale patiently guides seventeen-year-old […]
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Konnichiwa! こんにちは Behold, golfers who prefer the miniature game with green carpets, waterfalls, and fluorescent balls, there is a new course with a Japanese inspired theme in the unexpected locale of suburban Granger, Indiana called Ninja Golf! We may have played nearly all the putt-putt courses in the Northwest Indiana area so it was an […]
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The old Tippecanoe Railroad/JK Line (TIPP) served the Buckeye Feed and Supply until the mid 1980’s into the little country town of North Judson, Indiana. The history of this rail line is commemorated at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum just off of Main Street where the wooden rail ties and spikes have been converted to […]
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In Chicagoland’s South Side there is a marathon trail at just over 26 miles that follows the Calumet-Sag channel connecting the Sag Quarries in Lemont to Freedom Park in Alsip, Illinois. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the Jagers set off on another adventure to explore a new trail with our bikes. We started our journey […]
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Game Changers 