We’re always up for adventure! Our goal’s to make it to every National Park together. Thankful for our second chance at love and loving life
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Katmai National Park - It is a dream of mine to photograph the bears at Brooks Falls. In 2016 when my partner and I began talking we discussed how we both wanted to visit National parks in Alaska. We made a pact that if we were together in 10 years we would make this trip together as a family.
What has been your favorite adventure experience?Accomplishing the Beehive trail in Acadia National Park. It was our first trip together as a blended family and to our first National Park all together in 2017. It was so great seeing our kids work together and help one another along the trail. It was a real struggle for me but when I made it to the top, them all cheering for me brought tears to my eyes. We took 13 days going from Ohio to Maine and back. Site seeing in Concorde and Salem MA, The Schoodic Peninsula and Bar Harbor. #1 night sky!!
What would you do with $10,000?The first thing I would do is purchase items to start our youth adventure group in our hometown. We both work in the public school system and see such a need to get the youth out in nature but just don’t have the funds to get it started. With the rest we would head to Alaska with our kids and close family where we would have a small intimate wedding. This would also be our honeymoon making memories of a lifetime with the people we love the most.
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