24 hours at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Pennsylvania (in Winter!)

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Mark and I recently visited the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pennsylvania. We were interested in seeing this area because there has been discussion of it becoming a future national park. Our trip was in December, so I will be sharing what we did in winter (non-snow conditions) at the park. There are some roads and hikes that are closed in winter but we still found this to be a worthwhile time to visit.

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Walking Across Delaware – How To Walk Across a State in a Day

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After hiking across the state of Maryland on the Appalachian Trail via a series of section hikes in 2022, I started eyeing if there were any other states I could reasonably cross on foot again.

Since I live in Maryland, I started by researching other states around me and found that there is a trail that runs across the state of Delaware. The trail starts in Chesapeake City, Maryland as the Ben Cardin C&D Canal Trail and then once it crosses into Delaware changes names to the Michael Castle Trail, ending in Delaware City, Delaware. 

You can find the AllTrails map for this walk here.

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Top 9 Things to do in Baltimore, Maryland (that aren’t in Inner Harbor)

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While the Inner Harbor is Baltimore’s most popular tourist attraction, there are also several lesser known gems in the city worth a visit. As someone who lives in the Baltimore area, here are nine of my Charm City favorites.

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A Review: Platypus Tours of Sonoma and Napa Wineries

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When Mark and I were researching for our trip to California this past summer, we were trying to figure out a cost-effective* way to tour the wineries in the Sonoma and Napa wine regions.

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A Self-Guided Tour of the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

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When visiting Portland, Oregon earlier this summer, I wanted to see the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area – an area I had only heard of and wanted to learn more about.

To see the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Area we traveled 30 minutes east of Portland to the Historic Columbia River Highway. Constructed between 1913 and 1922, the Historic Columbia River Highway was designed to allow travelers to see the scenic sights of the Gorge and is considered to be America’s first scenic highway. The area includes various stops for waterfalls, vistas, and hiking trails.

Here is the itinerary I planned along the highway to see the highlights of the region.

Note: You will need a car for this tour. I do recommend doing these locations in the order listed below, otherwise you will end up having to go back and forth on I-84 to get to the correct exits.

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