Growing up, I loved the story of how Huck Finn convinces Tom to build a raft and float down the river for multiple days. I built my first water-craft with my dad probably around the age of 9 (it’s maiden, and only voyage was in our pool, but hey, it floated!). After a few other… Continue reading So… Packrafting
Author: formyfriendswhoaremoms
Buying a Ticket at Lunch
“Just write about how much you get to sleep,” said my cousin and mom friend, Rachel D., when I told her I started writing a blog so that my friends who are moms can vicariously live through my adventures and freedom. While I would hate to bore you with all the details of how I… Continue reading Buying a Ticket at Lunch
Beautiful Places with Beautiful People
For many of you, I am “that person”. Ya know, the one who when you see a special of someone on TV climbing a rock, traveling for an undetermined amount of time with a very small bag, or dying somewhere out in the middle of nowhere with no one to know what actually happened, you… Continue reading Beautiful Places with Beautiful People
A Cheese and Wine Party
You could say I am a cheese and wine party expert. For example; there was the one time my boyfriend and I may or may not have smuggled boxed wine and goldfish crackers onto a missions trip and snuck off to set up hammocks down by the river to consume them. Or the time I… Continue reading A Cheese and Wine Party
I Live Here!
If you ever get the chance to visit, we’ll probably go on an adventure that goes something like this: you are being pushed outside of your comfort zone, you start to understand the joy that I find in being outside in moderate to high risk situations. Once I see you make the realization, I will… Continue reading I Live Here!
Blessed by a Hitch-Hiking Host
There is a dirtbag* proverb about hitch-hiking that goes something like this, “as long as the car is moving, you are safe. Once it stops, get out.” There are times when hitch-hiking really is the way to go. For instance, say you were in Denali National Park, wanting to stay a night in the backcountry,… Continue reading Blessed by a Hitch-Hiking Host
Dad and Accountability
Only a few times has my dad ever confronted me, all in needed ways. There was the time I was dating a chump. The time I was partying too much. You know, the things that my dad can see as harmful but a 20 something Megan cannot. Well, I am 30 now, so obviously far… Continue reading Dad and Accountability