HGwD Blog

  • Coral Pink Sand Dunes

    Coral Pink Sand Dunes

    During our road trip to Utah, Xena and I spent a couple of hours at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. Since it was close to sunset, there wasn’t much of OHV (off-highway vehicles) activity on the dunes and we only saw a few people wandering sparsely on the dunes. When we were alone, I… Read more

  • Beach Camping at Lake Powell

    Beach Camping at Lake Powell

    Although I am now getting around to write about this trip, we took this trip back in late October/early November of last year. Yep, I got some catching up to do. This is what happens when you are adventuring faster than you can write about them. Not a bad problem to have. Road Trip to… Read more

  • Birthday Hike

    Birthday Hike

    My baby turned 6 exactly a week go! I took a day off from work so we can celebrate it with our friends in the mountains. We hiked to one of our favorite peaks in the Angeles National Forest. Josephine Peak. We tried a new route from the Colby Canyon trailhead and loved it! This is… Read more

  • Best of 2017

    Best of 2017

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  • Glamping to Solo Camping

    Glamping to Solo Camping

    Let’s talk about camping. Camping was merely something I’d like to try until the beginning of this year. Our glamping trip in April ignited the fire. I felt like we might actually like it if we tried. After our try-out overnight camping trip in May proved my hunch was right, camping quickly became another way for… Read more

  • Whatever Wednesday: Race Against EOY

    If you are like me, this time of year you are on a race to spend all your FSA money by end of the month. It’s your money but it’s “use it or lose it” money. If you don’t use it by end of the year, you lose whatever the balance left in this year’s… Read more