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Stomping Grounds

October 27, 2017 By Val Weston Leave a Comment

Stomping grounds—the areas where you spend most of your time, the accessible places from your home base, your most familiar territory. For most of my life, my stomping grounds consisted of the humid … [Read more...] about Stomping Grounds

Filed Under: Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: exploring, hiking, home, nevada

Love Note to the Peach State

February 15, 2017 By Val Weston 2 Comments

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Oh Peach State, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways—mountains, swamps, beaches, rivers, pinelands, farms, waterfalls, museums, gardens, rich history, beautiful people. The list goes on and on. … [Read more...] about Love Note to the Peach State

Filed Under: Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: camping, chattahoochee nature center, cloudland canyon, cumberland island, dahlonega, dungeness, fort pulaski, geocaching, georgia, georgia state parks, going caching, hiking, jimmy carter national historic site, len foote hike inn, skidaway island, stone mountain, vickery creek

Exploring Cathedral Gorge State Park

July 30, 2015 By Val Weston 2 Comments

Back in May, I set out on another mega road trip to regain my Val-ness. After Overland Expo in Arizona, I mozied my way to Great Basin National Park in northeast Nevada. I then headed south to … [Read more...] about Exploring Cathedral Gorge State Park

Filed Under: Outdoors, Photography, Uncategorized Tagged With: cathedral gorge, cathedral gorge state park, hiking, nevada, nevada state parks

Great Basin National Park

July 1, 2015 By Val Weston 1 Comment

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My western adventure was a fairly loose mess—willy-nilly and largely unplanned. After my exit from the surprisingly wintry experience at Overland Expo, I ventured into the Silver State and moseyed my … [Read more...] about Great Basin National Park

Filed Under: Outdoors, Uncategorized Tagged With: camping, great basin, great basin national park, hiking, national park, nevada

Foundations

May 8, 2015 By Val Weston 2 Comments

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Back in March I wrote about why it's important to keep your bucket full. But I realized my thoughts at the time were an incomplete picture of the tools needed to weather unfortunate life events. A … [Read more...] about Foundations

Filed Under: Life, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: hiking, knitting

Celebrating Winter

January 16, 2015 By Val Weston 4 Comments

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Here in the Peach State, winter is a conundrum. The respite from summer's brutal heat is welcome yet we don't often have the benefit of snow to liven up our outdoor adventures. In fact, snow here can … [Read more...] about Celebrating Winter

Filed Under: Motorcycling, Outdoors Tagged With: geocaching, georgia, hiking, john burroughs, quote, weather, winter

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