Serendib Travel

I really wish I’d taken the kids to the woods more over this last pandemic year — I did a bit at the beginning, but as the year wore on, I think I was just in coping mode, and it felt beyond me, even just driving over to local Thatcher Woods. But they’re really so […]

The kids and I went for a forest walk; I was a little surprised that there wasn’t more in bloom, but maybe Michigan is sufficiently colder than where we are that they’re a little behind us? Some nice green & grey stuff, though. Aside from the pine needles, I couldn’t identify any of it. There

I packed a bunch of small board / card games (there’s a basic deck of cards on site for your use, if you don’t feel like packing anything), and the kids voted for Unstable Unicorns. So we spent an hour or so playing that, although I want to note that when an 10-year-old and a

On arrival around 6, the kids took to the woods for a little exploration, Kevin lay down for a bit (poor munchkin is still having headaches and eye issues, alas), and I started working on the fire. They have bundles of firewood and kindling starts (very effective and easy to use) in the big bin

For food, there’s a nice little kitchen with all the basics you need (no microwave) for cooking indoors. There are various snack-y / tea & coffee type things inside for purchase at reasonable prices, and you can also order a provisions box in advance for another $30 or so, which gets you a few meals’

So if you’re just going as an adult (or two adults), you get a queen size bed with a huge window view of the woods. If you want a second queen size bed, it’s lofted into the same space, which actually worked fine for us. The kids had a lot of fun being up in

So way back in February or so, when I was feeling particularly stir-crazy, but we were also being super-cautious about interacting with people, I followed a FB ad to this place called Getaway. It claimed to have a site within two hours of Chicago, but it was being very mysterious about the actual address. This

I may have run away with my family to the woods. Back tomorrow.

I hit fully-vaccinated status yesterday, and while I’m not going to rush around and do all the things, I’ve mostly not left a three-block radius for over a year, and the itchy feet are practically on fire at this point. And I miss Jed. So tentatively thinking of going to CA once the semester is