Note: An Updated version of this post can be found here I grew up assuming that backpacking was not an option for me. Backpacking along with scuba diving was looped into the "too dangerous for diabetics" category in my head. A category, which I've only recently realized is completely ludicrous. Unlike scuba diving, no one [...]
Cibbets Flat Kitchen Creek Cleveland National Forest Off the 8 east after Alpine, is a valley known as Kitchen Creek. As the edge of Cleveland National Forrest before you hit Anza Borrego, this is one of the lusher areas around San Diego. The campsite is dramatically situated on a creek between mountains. Not only [...]
"It doesn't snow in San Diego." False. Although it snows about every 50 years in the city of San Diego, it snows almost every year in Julian. Julian, California Julian is one of those strange places that doesn't feel like San Diego. It is located North East of the city separating coast from dessert. Southern [...]
As you can probably see from the simple change in scenery, I have left the Jersey shore and headed north to my home away from home, New England. Currently I am recovering from my cafe and shore lifestyle in a not-so-little house on Squam Lake in New Hampshire. The road to recovery has not been [...]
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