by Bill | Dec 9, 2024 | Family, Getaways
A full year in review It’s been an active year for us with our growing faith, family, and friends! By God’s grace, our health remains strong, and we’ve been able to spend quality time throughout the year hosting, visiting, vacationing, and sharing...
by Bill | Sep 1, 2024 | Family, Getaways
For three wonderful days we traveled with our daughter Johanna and her 3 younger kids and new puppy Tilly from Rochester up into the Adirondack Mountains past the chain lakes and north of Raquette Lake to a little-known relatively undeveloped body of water known as...
by Bill | Aug 28, 2023 | Family, Getaways
Forked Lake Revisited One of our family’s favorite vacation camping destinations over the years has been going canoe camping in the Adirondacks. We like to plan, reserve one or two remote campsites, drive up, canoe out to the edges of “the...
by Bill | Sep 15, 2019 | Getaways
We had a wonderful visit earlier this month with Gail and Dick and their family and friends out on Vancouver Island. We crossed the border at Niagara Falls, drove to Toronto, and stayed overnight there before boarding our non-stop flight to Nanaimo the next day. The...
by Bill | Aug 18, 2019 | Getaways
Every year for almost a decade now Susan and I have been taking an extended summer weekend to go canoe camping in the Adirondacks, often with our oldest granddaughter, Zoya, joining us. This year she was busy, so it was a “honeymoon” getaway for us. We...
by Bill | Oct 15, 2018 | Getaways
There’s something amazing about living in a part of the world that has four distinct seasons, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring. We love each one! But sometimes we thing Fall with its colors and smells is the most special (until we get to the next season…)....