Last weekend we attended three children’s birthday parties. Aside from the sheer exhaustion of spending three straight days chasing after 3-9 year olds, it was enjoyable to spend the time outside and being active. All three party planners wisely choose to incorporate the gorgeous Florida spring weather into the festivities. One terrific idea for a [...]

When planning a weekend hiking trip, what food items you bring does not matter all too much. Your main focus is to buy the food that you like, that you will be able to cook, and that can go without refrigeration for a few days. However, for trips longer than a weekend, planning the food for [...]

On May 4th, I sat near the Longfellow Bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 4th seat of a Northeastern University Novice 8-person Resolute boat. On a normal race day, my boat would have to wait there, near the starting line, for only 10-20 minutes. However, a piece of equipment had broken in our boat, forcing [...]

Life comes at you pretty fast. And for the most part, Americans embrace fast as good. Even our recreation time is rushed. We run when we could walk. We’d rather ride our bikes fast than far. So it was when I first was introduced to the pontoon boat and the lazy Rainbow River, my first [...]