Reading Time: < 1 minute We are now within a week of Spring and the snow is almost gone where we live. Sure, there can still be a snowstorm or two, but it seems appropriate to say goodbye to this winter’s snowmen and to plan for next winter’s snow creations. Enjoy the poem and the […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Outdoors reconnaissance trips can pave the way for greater accomplishments and more adventures. When our daughters were younger, and the winter weather made getting outdoors more difficult, my wife and I would often take Sunday afternoon drives. This was our way to find lakes, rivers, or mountains that we had
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Reading Time: 3 minutes A commercial for Ford Trucks ends with a voice saying, “whatever party you got going on in the back, we got the business up front.” This comes after hearing the classic song, East Bound and Down by Dick Feller / Jerry Hubbard Reed. “East bound and down, loaded up and
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Reading Time: 3 minutes As the snow was tapering off one evening, my wife said to me, “let’s build a snowman!” Our latest snowfall only amounted to 4 or 5 inches on the ground. The snow wasn’t very packable and the resulting creation wasn’t our largest snowman. However, we played the cards that we
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Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s cold and snowing…time to get OutdoorZ. Check out outdoors short stories and articles to keep you motivated: Winter Water Wonders, Grandma’s First Appalachian Trail Adventure, and The First Snow and Santa was not Thrilled. Visit the Top 10 List to see what people are visiting the most.
Reading Time: < 1 minute How many people have visited 6 continents? How many people have completed 6 marathons? How about accomplishing both of those in 6 days? Joe Gagnon did it and wrote the book, Living the High Performance Life: An Ordinary Joe’s Guide to the Extraordinary. “Everyone on this planet has a similar opportunity
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Anyone who rides New Jersey Transit trains regularly, or reads the news, knows that there are problems with this mass transportation system. Recently, my family and I rode the trains into New York City to visit Bryant Park, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, and Times Square. A day later, I read
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Reading Time: 4 minutes “Grandma will be fine. There’s a slight incline at the beginning, but it’s short and then the trail levels out. It goes to a good overlook, which beats just walking in the woods and through fields and not seeing anything. Grandma will be fine!” And with those now-famous last words,
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Reading Time: 3 minutes I love autumn. The heat and humidity are gone. The overgrown plants on the trails are gone. Ticks, for the most part, are gone. And, since many folks spend more time inside as the temperature drops, the crowds outdoors are also gone. As I cross off days on the December
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Reading Time: 6 minutes I pressed my face against the vents of my high-powered HEPA and carbon air filter to block out fumes of asphalt, laundry and paint. Wzzzzz Wzzzzz the filter whirled, calming my nerves as my lungs fought for air. Uhhggghhh, Uhhhgghhh. After swallowing my third double dose of Benadryl that night,
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