Vacation was wonderful! We enjoyed the peace and quiet that the "camping" and hiking in Hocking Hills provided, but we had to come back to the busy, noisy city of Baltimore that we call home. After all, it was Jim's job that paid for that vacation...
It had been a long time since I had been in Hocking Hills. I had forgotten how beautiful it is. We were alone on most of the paths, and were able to really enjoy the scenery. Memorial Day week is a really good time to visit, if you are able. The weather is comfortable, there aren't many bugs yet, and most kids are still in school, so the parks are quiet. We saw many beautiful flowers and lots of butterflies.
The gypsy wagon was a nice place to stay. Of course, you don't expect to be pampered while camping (even cabin camping), so the air mattresses were about as comfortable as we thought they would be. (They squeaked when you moved, so we tried to stay as still as possible all night long. That wasn't much of a problem, though, since we were exhausted from hiking all day long.) The castle and grounds were very nice, and the owners were friendly. Our kids really enjoyed the castle dog and cat! We didn't spend a lot of time at the castle other than sleeping and eating, since we had hiking to do each day, but we did stop to play giant checkers once or twice.
During the day we hiked, and Dot did every step that we did. Jamie, however, spent much of the time in the hiking backpack, and some of it sleeping! He did get out to hike some of the gorge trails. We are proud of how well they did - we figure we hiked 12 miles last week!
By the way, we took about 150 pictures last week... want to stop by and see them sometime?
1 comment:
My hair looks short because 1. I have long side-swept bangs now, and 2. it was all pulled back. No one wants long sweaty hair down their back while hiking!
Doug,
we'll try to remember to bring the photos...
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