

Giddyup! Family Horse Riding Experience
In our quest to find new and different adventures, we discovered Mesa Vista Farm in Powhatan, VA. Mesa Vista is a incredible therapeutic riding center that serves traditional riders and riders with a variety of special needs including Autism, Cerebal Palsy, Developmental Delay, Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, Down Syndrome, ADD/ADHD, Vision/hearing impaired, Muscular Dystrophy and Multiple Sclerosis. This past Fall, they offered a special "60 minute family horseback riding lesso


Discovering Charlottesville: Monticello, Peach Picking and Michie Tavern
"Monticello sits atop a lofty hill in Albemarle County, Virginia, not far from the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, its creator and most prominent resident, who spent more than four decades designing, dismantling and re-imagining the estate he called his 'essay in architecture.' A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, the property is considered a national treasure not only for its beauty and historical significance but also for what it reveals about the third U.S. president,