Dadcation
I’ve spent as many weekends as possible in 2021 on mountains. Every weekend since getting mountain bikes, my bride and I have gone west, south, or north of Atlanta to ride. One weekend earlier this month, however, we brought the children, and Jody brought his oldest daughter, and the 7 of us stayed in a cabin in a mountain biking hostel of sorts (that’s how an article we read in Atlanta magazine described it, after which I immediately booked a trip) called Mulberry Gap in north Georgia near…
Last Summer, we flew into Denver for over a week of exploring the national parks in Colorado; I wrote a partnered post with Hanes but never fully described the “rest” of the story, so here it is. After we landed, we headed south toward Great Sand Dunes National Park, which shouldn’t have been too bad of a drive on I-25, (about 3.5 hours), but there were wildfires west of us that covered the roads with thick smoke, and before we’d gone too far, we saw signs indicating road…
*Thanks to Hanes for sponsoring this post* Colorado has 4 distinctly awesome national parks. I saw 3/4 of them in 1987 when my folks drove my brother and me from Nashville in a two-toned ’83 Suburban, and I’ve wanted to go back with my own family and explore the diverse national parks of Colorado ever since. We finally went this summer. Of all the parks we were slated to see, I was most excited about returning to Mesa Verde National Park. It’s my mom’s favorite of all the national…