Tag: mental health

ADK Snow Falls Challenge

ADK Snow Falls Challenge

Attainable Goals. A winter waterfall hiking challenge in the Adirondack Mountains. I’m not entirely sure how I found Expedition Midlife to learn about this hiking challenge, but it was most likely through Dig the Falls. Before I began this winter journey, I had visited 4 of the waterfalls listed previously. Beecher Creek Falls, Rockwell Falls,…

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Reflecting and Reminiscing: 2020

Reflecting and Reminiscing: 2020

2020 began hopeful with travel plans and anticipation of live music. Montreal, Quebec Dark Easter Metal Meeting, Munich, Germany Fire in the Mountains, Wyoming Wardruna, New York City But… There would be no traveling. And there would be no live music. And the closest I was going to get to New York City, was an…

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Saratoga Spa State Park: 2020

Saratoga Spa State Park: 2020

2020 in the Park Saratoga Spa State Park is a place I can go that always brings me joy. In 2020 I tasted springs, visited the baths, “ran” trails, played disc golf, went swimming, and snowshoed. I am truly fortunate to have a refuge of recreation near my home. I took over a thousand photos…

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Saratoga Spa State Park 2019

Saratoga Spa State Park 2019

Saratoga Spa State Park Saratoga Spa State Park could very well be my favorite thing about Saratoga Springs, New York. The park is huge with so many features to take advantage of that I doubt I’ll ever exhaust my options for park adventures! My very favorite thing to do in the park is walk around and taste…

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Discovering Cohoes Falls

Discovering Cohoes Falls

Overlook Park & Falls View Park Cohoes, New York – 2019 Overlook Park: Open year round Falls View Park: Open May 1st – November 1st, sunrise to sunset The first time I tried to visit Falls View Park, it was March and still closed for the season. Although the sun decided to shine brightly that…

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April Adventures & Explorations

April Adventures & Explorations

My April began in Montreal. Then I got sick, which led me to watch some of my favorite movies. Fight Club. Always gets me thinking. Tyler Durden asks the question, “If you were to die right now, what do you wish you would have done?” This question began to roam around recklessly in my mind.…

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Restlessness

Restlessness

I love the idea of a Restless Raincloud How perfectly audacious! Assuming that a raincloud could be anything other than… Unsettled. Daydreaming… playfully bashful delight in her eyes. Aimlessly wandering tumultuous and wild. An unpredictable reckless melancholy. Roaming Impulsively Gazing Wisely Watching … from a distance. I mistook my destination and got lost along the…

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Saratoga Spa State Park

Saratoga Spa State Park

I am curious. I am directionally challenged. I am determined. I had some time to kill before work and I just happened to be in Saratoga Springs, NY. I was nervous to do something alone, but I desperately wanted to explore and have myself an adventure. I decided to check out the park around the Roosevelt…

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Right Where It Belongs

Right Where It Belongs

See the animal in his cage that you built Are you sure what side you’re on? Better not look him too closely in the eye Are you sure what side of the glass you are on? See the safety of the life you have built Everything where it belongs Feel the hollowness inside of your…

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