An adventure blog should start with a good story, don’t you think?

Once upon a time, there was a girl. Her mother died. Her father was “otherwise engaged”. And she was adopted by a nice military couple. Real outdoorsy types who spent their summers camping, and innertubing lazily down rivers, and traveling to places they’d never been. Always with their kids in tow.

While the girl’s new mother preferred vanity camping and being clean, the girl’s new father liked to get his hands dirty. So they often camped and adventured as a family just on the fringes of each’s idea of “fun”, showing the kids the best parts of both and letting them choose. And at every given opportunity, our girl plunged after her new father into the deeper, darker woods. Read the rest of this entry