Virgin Falls Hike with TTA I have not been good at staying up to date with this blog, so I'm having to go backwards a bit. On November 6, 2010 we did a joint hike with the Sumner & Nashville Chapters of the Tennessee Trails Association and my HFUMC Hiking Group. River Rat Al approached me about possibly merging our group with the Sumner County TTA group. It seems like a great idea...we would both gain hike leaders and share our members & the organizing l...

Challenge Nation - Nashville Yesterday I competed in the Challenge Nation race in Nashville with my friends, Amanda & Luke Diamond. We were given twelve clues and had to complete 11 of them before returning to the starting point. It's kind of like a one-day Amazing Race, which is one of my favorite shows when I get to watch it. This one was much less intense & physically demanding than the Oyster Race I did last year. We started out at Paradise Park dow...

The Great Train Rescue Today we took a trip that my mom has been planning for months. She bought tickets for a train excursion trip to Monterey for their Dogwood Festival and gave them to Jenni, Dad, and me for our birthdays. It was a day that would turn out to be unlike any other. As Saturday approached, our excitement about the trip grew. It would be my first train trip. We knew that the forecast looked gloomy, but we don't let the rain spoil our plans genera...

Nashville Oyster Race, Passport 5 Just to clarify, the whole race took place on Saturday, October 24. Since I didn't sit down and write about the whole race at once, OffExploring kept putting the posts out of order (The site organizes the blogs by date and time stamps. I can change the date, but not the time of the posts). For Passport 5, we were told to bike to Centenniel Park and that two of us would be paddling once we got there. The third person could help ...

Nashville Oyster Race, Passport 4 I apologize for not finishing writing this sooner! Time just slipped away. I think I left off at I Dream Of Weanie, am I right? We were given a pool float and told that we needed to blow it up by the time we reached our next destination, which was Riverfront Park. Luckily, my legs had recovered and we were able to run most of the way. It is very tricky trying to blow up a float while running! The wind kept blowing us sideways, ...