Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Ross Family Mini Vacation

 Hiking is one of my all time favorite things to do, and Clint and I are taking four days next week to do just that! We will be heading to north Georgia to camp out at Enota Mountain Retreat. Enota is actually a sixty acre non-profit conservation facility. They're all about conservation (obviously), sustainability, and living lightly. They have an organic farm where you can pick your own produce, a restaurant that serves food made from their farm, over 300 animals (chickens, bunnies, goats, cows, horses, etc.), a trout pond, a fair trade gift shop, and more! Clint is awesome at finding things like this; he knows exactly the things I love and won't stop searching till it's just right. The most exciting part of the whole thing is all the hiking trails that are nearby. I've found eight trails I would like to hike, totaling about 36 miles in all. I don't think we'll quite make it to all of them :) Hopefully we'll get to borrow Clint's dad's camera and have lots of pictures to share when we get back. Until then, enjoy these preview photos from Enota's website.

3 comments:

Sharon Telschow said...

That sounds like an awesome outing! What fun.

Maggard said...

OH! Would it be awkward if I joined you two?? :) That sounds so so perfect! I hope you two have the best time ever.

Kelly Hibbs said...

we just got back, we did three days of backpacking, and it was really exhausting, but fun. What a beautiful area it is out there liz! I didn't know you had a blog until brit commented on it on fbook :) so now i follow it too!! one of our dreams someday is to own land and have our own vegetable garden, pigs and chickens :) and with the rest of the land, jesse wants to build a mountain bike park! (of course, I want to live on a lake) ...and we try to buy organic/farmers mkt stuff whenever we can afford it, so it's fun to see how interested you are in all of it too :) hope your time away is fabtabuloso!!