Travel, Family & The Best Things in Life
With over 22 miles of hiking trails Mount Tom State Reservation in Holyoke, Massachusetts is the best way to spend couple of hours or a whole day either hiking, running, bird watching, leaf peeping or cross country skiing depending on the season and your interest. It’s a hidden gem right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the […]
We did little-to-no research on this excursion and that become obvious when the GPS proceeded to tell us to “board a boat in 1000 feet”. A little confused in the moment I had to quickly pull out my phone and double check to make sure we were on the correct road to the intended location being the Gillette Castle State […]
May might simply be my favorite season. And not only because its our baby girl’s birthday month but also because it’s the start of the warmer weather where we can actually go out and enjoy our days without our fingers freezing. It was on a late May day when while changing the clothes in our daughter’s closet as I do […]
Recently while driving through Avon, Connecticut on our way to a farm for some strawberry picking, our littles excitedly pointed to a tower purged on the top of a hill asking me what that could be. After some short research we discovered that what was standing on the top of Talcott Mountain was Heublein Tower. A 165-foot-tall tower built to […]
We do hikes with our littles fairly often and we thoroughly enjoy them. It’s one of our favorite ways to spend quality time as a family and bond while recharging and enjoying all that nature has to offer us. The Balancing Rock at the Pittsfield State park was an unexpected fun experience that we didn’t necessarily plan. We were driving […]
A windy driveway, along scenic byway Rt. 112 passes through gorgeous vistas of the surrounding Westfield Valley. The valley is lined with old Maple trees and stonewalls and our destination that day ended in Cummington, Massachusetts at the boyhood home and later summer residence of William Cullen Bryant. Bryant was not only the most influential American poet in the first […]
Surrounded by the picturesque Berkshire Hills, Hancock Shaker Village located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is an indoor/ outdoor museum holding a wide range of demonstrations and exhibits showing the Shaker lifestyle and beliefs. It took us a short drive from the town of Lenox, MA where we were staying to reach the grounds of the Village where we enjoyed a stroll […]