My family likes to travel. In the past year, we’ve been to Washington, D.C., the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Pipestem Resort State Park in West Virginia, and Jeffersonville, IN/Louisville, KY – along with a few day trips nearby.
As all parents know, traveling long distances with kids can be more of a nightmare than a [...]

What do you think of when you hear the word “hatchery”? Maybe I’m weird, but I think of things hatching … as in eggs, hatching. I’ve known about the nearby Tate Lohr Fish Hatchery for about a year and have wanted to take my kids out to see science and nature in action. [...]

We had hoped to go on a vacation over the Labor Day holiday, to visit some of the scenic places here in WV like Dolly Sods, Spruce Knob, and Cranberry Glades. It just didn’t work out that we could go. It’s just as well because we likely would have camped, but it started [...]

Last Saturday, October 11, 2008, was the National Wildlife Federation’s day for Make Tracks! They organized the day to encourage families to get outdoors for a hike. We decided to go to Pinnacle Rock State Park in Bramwell, WV. I had visited Pinnacle Rock about ten years ago when I was in [...]