Outdoor Adventure in Vermont

by Francis McGovern
One of the biggest challenges throughout the year is getting the kids off the TV and video games and out into the great Outdoors. It’s fine if they are reading or doing something constructive but sometimes you can sound like one of those old-fashioned parents saying things like, “when I was a kid, we left the house at the crack of dawn and came back when the street lights went on.” That's sort of true when it was semi safe to ride your bike out into the neighborhood and kids would look after the other kids but now that’s a little harder to do with the older kids not looking...