Dadcation
One thing I’ve learned about having fun is it’s best to risk one’s life to achieve it, and it must be preceded by excruciating toil. So, Jody, Jim Bob, my wife, and I all bought full suspension aluminum mountain bikes recently, and I met my 2 friends from childhood just off I-20 at Oxford, Alabama at a place called Coldwater Mountain on a snowy/sleeting Saturday morning on 5 hours sleep so we could have fun. Jody and I arrived 15 minutes before Jim Bob, so I looked at…
Just over 2 hours from Atlanta is a state park in Alabama a few minutes from where my parents live, and since we had a Screaming Eagle Aerial Adventures rain check (more accurately, a “torrential, lightning-filled, and utterly destructive storm” check) left from Fathers Day weekend, we used it in late October to see what ziplining is all about. The weather provided panoramic views of the Sunday sunrise from atop a tree canopy overlooking a beautiful lake. See the lake? It’s to our left. The perched 20-something guides…
My Eagle scout friend Jody (whose ceremony I attended nearly 30 years ago) planned a family camping trip to Cloudland Canyon State Park in northwest GA for his birthday weekend, so being a good friend, I invited myself (plus my 3 children, wife, and dog) to join. We enjoyed it so much that a couple weekends later, we did it again, this time at DeSoto State Park by Fort Payne, Alabama (just east of Rome, GA), but this time, we didn’t bring dogs (but added our friend Jim…