Our next stop after a few days in Lugano was the Cinque Terre–Riomaggiore specifically. Never heard of it? Well, the Cinque Terre is a national park area in Italy that surrounds some villages along the coast. I used to think that a couple of the villages were only accessible by foot. After hiking there and…
Tag: hiking
Cloudy With a Chance of Hiking
This weekend was strange. That’s the only way I can explain it. There were these moments of pure relaxation and summer, and there was some serious family sadness. It’s hard to reconcile those two extremes in the space of just a few days. Then to really confuse the matter, there were these miscellaneous everyday things…
Chicken Posole for a Cool Fall Night
I think Chicken Posole might be my new favorite substitute for chicken noodle soup and chicken tortilla soup. I used a recipe from The New Way to Cook Light, and you can find that recipe here. It looks like this in the bowl: It tastes like flavorful chicken goodness. Using the chicken from a rotisserie…
More Puppy Gang, (Plus!) Anniversary, (And!) Waldorf Salad
It’s been busy around these parts since the last post. First, we had some family guests on Friday night–our very first guests at the new house. There are definitely still piles of stuff that aren’t where they should be, but all in all, I think the house worked just fine. That was nice to see….
Hiking and Other Things
That title doesn’t have enough excitement in it, but it will have to do for now, because if I changed it to “Hiking and Other Things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I might lose all respect for myself. I blame my mom for that. She loves grammar. Anyway, here’s a really good story (in my opinion, which is totally biased):…
Hiking the Washington Ditch Trail
Scott and I decided that it was time to go hiking this weekend. We both like being outside and that sort of thing, so why not? It seemed like a fitting way to celebrate the last three-day weekend for a few months, and the weather was absolutely gorgeous. Hiking is kind of a tricky thing…
Weekend Decompression
Okay, it was a big weekend. For one thing, it was four and a half days long. For another, it involved meeting lots of new (to me) people and going to lots of new (to me) places. “Good” would be an understatement for the weekend as a whole, but I haven’t had a chance to…
Small, but valuable. 