Author: Travel Bugged

Berkshires, Hikes, Travel

Balancing Life with a Toddler at Balance Rock State park in Pittsfield, MA

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 […]

Massachusetts, The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts

A walk back in time at the William Cullen Bryant Homestead

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 […]

Berkshires

A Day on The Farm In The Berkshires at Hancock Shaker Village

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 […]