HGwD Blog

  • Review: Take A Hike! A Donkey-Donk Story

    Review: Take A Hike! A Donkey-Donk Story

    I get review requests for books and products regularly, but only a handful of emails catch my attention. This book is one of them! I am so excited to share it with you guys. Take A Hike! is a children’s book, and a miniature donkey named Donkey-Donk is the main character. This book is the Read more

  • Trail Canyon Falls

    Trail Canyon Falls

    When the brutal summer heat was finally coming to an end, the wildfires took over the mountains in Southern California last year. The Bobcat Fire burned for months in the Angeles National Forest. It started on September 6, 2020, and was finally contained by December 18. To say I was disappointed and felt sad would Read more

  • Aspiration Trail

    Aspiration Trail

    With a name like that, you know I was intrigued. This was another short hike we did during the road trip in October. One night we stayed over in St George, UT. The next morning, I looked up local hikes nearby and decided to do this before getting on the road again. There is a Read more

  • Clunker…Holy Cross…Holey Bucket

    Clunker…Holy Cross…Holey Bucket

    Like the rest of the world, we didn’t get to explore much this year between the Covid lockdown and a sequence of wildfires. But amid chaos, we managed to put in a few small hikes here and there this fall. In the next few posts, I will share those hikes with you. This was a Read more