By Doug Humphreys
There are few things as peaceful as paddling a canoe. Simply looking at the long, subtle lines of the craft will ease the tension in a tight chest. A solo float down a quiet creek will suck the stress out of the most frazzled soul. Listening to water droplets as they fall from a paddle can induce a trance that will make the realities of life nothing more than a fuzzy dream.
Of course if you fill that same boat with a three-year-old girl, a five-year-old boy, and a …

By Doug Humprheys
Vacation is a relative term. Before I was married a vacation was a week spent hunting or fishing with friends. After marriage, vacation became a quiet beach, a good book, and romantic evening walks. Now, with two small children, vacation is moving madness from Shepherdstown to a beach town on the Outer Banks.
During our last vacation in Kitty Hawk, I was eating breakfast with a restless three-year old and a teething one-year old and was thinking that we needed a change of pace for that particular day. The …