Mojo Ridin' : A Lyttle Big Adventure

15/08/2023

Independent blog about U.S. national parks and forests, wildlife & sustainable outdoor recreation.

25/07/2023

Cummins Falls State Park In Tennessee, USA

15/02/2022

15/12/2021

National parks draw massive numbers of tourists to the towns near them. But the towns furthest from national parks deserve a look too!

05/10/2021

We visited the most recent addition to our National Parks today. The New River Gorge Bridge is 876 feet tall and over 3,000 feet long.
The "new" in New River is a misnomer, as it's the second oldest river in the world, behind The Nile.

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03/10/2021

Our site is right on the New River.

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02/10/2021

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02/10/2021

Our campground is situated on the towpath of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal, which we could use to bike; canal on the right, Potomac River on the left, 5 miles to Harper's Ferry. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenendoah Rivers, this National Historical Park includes an 1800's town with period shops, John Brown's fort, AND it's on the Appalachian Trail. We had a beautiful day to explore.

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01/10/2021

September 17th, 1862 was the bloodiest day in American history. 23,000 soldiers were wounded, killed, or missing after 12 hours of savage combat. The battle at Antietam ended the Confederate Army's first invasion into the north and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

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30/09/2021

Our campsite is on the banks of the Potomac in Maryland. Across the river is Virginia.

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30/09/2021

Spending the night on Swatara Creek, just 2 miles from the Swatara Gap Trailhead on the Appalachian Trail.

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29/09/2021

26/09/2021

Spending a night in Narragansett, Rhode Island.
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25/09/2021

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. "
-Henry David Thoreau

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23/09/2021

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23/09/2021

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20/09/2021

This weekend marked the 40th anniversary of Burlington's Church Street Marketplace. We saw Bernie's office building, and a lot of "Bernie is my Homeboy" merchandise, but not the Senator himself.

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20/09/2021

You never know what you're going to find...

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20/09/2021

Our site is right on the bike path that runs along Lake Champlain.
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18/09/2021

On Wednesday Eric got to fulfill a bucket-list wish. My lifelong baseball fan husband spent the whole day in Cooperstown, touring the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and Doubleday Field, capping it off at a local brewery.
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