Last weekend I spent another night at the Ottawa Lake Campground. You may be wondering “Why don’t you go to another site?” Well, Ottawa Lake is the only winter campsite in the Kettle Moraine-Southern Unit, which is 25 minutes from my house. Pretty convenient. I arrived on Saturday early afternoon and looked for a campsite. […]
In December, I spent another nice night at the Ottawa Lake campground. I arrived Saturday evening and checked into a really nice campsite next to Ottawa Lake. After setting up my campsite, I hiked the Scuppernong Springs Trail, which was really nice (see some pics below). I returned to my campsite and prepared some dinner […]
This past weekend I finally got out to Ottawa Lake campground for an overnight camping adventure. I’ve unsuccessfully attempted to camp out there 3 times in 2019. Twice I was rained out and snowed out the other. I arrived at the campground on Saturday at 2:30 pm, set up camp and walked around the campground. […]
This is the third installment of the five essentials to beginning a successful meditation practice. To me, this is the most important: Let go of expectations. I speak with people when they start meditating and hear things like “I don’t think I’m doing it right” or “I wasn’t able to meditate like others.” Each person’s […]
This is my third installment of McLean’s 5 essentials for successful meditation: Don’t try too hard. Forcing one’s self to have a certain experience (“I’m gonna sit here until I don’t have any thoughts”) when meditating is only going to create more thoughts. I love McLean’s example of trying to force oneself to go to […]
This summer I struck up a conversation with a friend about meditation. She was interested in meditating, confessing that she sorely needed to bring some calmness her chaotic life.” When I asked how meditation was going she said, “I tried it for a couple of days, but couldn’t keep it going.” I asked what kept […]
So I went camping this past Labor Day weekend at Oak Savannah Fields in Easty Troy. I found their campsite on the website www.hipcamp.com. You should check it out. Oak Savannah Fields is a part of Grassway Organics., which is an organic farm on about 400 acres and is beautiful. They have free-range chickens, cows, […]
Meditation is often understood as something done only on a mat or in a chair. And that is a big part of it, but I wanted to remind readers that many of my meditations over the past several months have come in the form of mindful adventures. Beginning this past spring, I began trying to […]
Last week was my last time to campout this summer in CO. I decided to go back to Arapaho Bay’s Roaring Fork Campground, as it was so nice my first trip. Also, I didn’t hike 9+ miles the day I set up camp so I figured I’d enjoy it more:) The pictures above show off […]
Last week I finally made it out to Big Meadows. Starting from the Visitor’s Center, I hiked about 8.5 miles (round trip) with an elevation gain of 736 feet. I previously hiked parts of this trail, but hadn’t made it up to the meadows. Which was beautiful! The weather was lovely and there was a […]