I AM WOMAN: Cabin fever, Adirondacks-style

A perfect complement to weekly dude column "Man Cave," Jillian Weir-Reeves' "I Am Woman" adds a feminine touch by chronicling the weekend adventures of a single social butterfly in the city of sisterly love.

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I AM WOMAN: Cabin fever, Adirondacks-style

POSTED: Monday, April 4, 2011, 11:00 AM

Filed Under: I Am Woman

As an urbanite in my early 20s, the idea of suburban life has the potential to shock me into an early menopause. But hustle-bustle city life can leave a girl a little restless. I felt the need to shake things up a bit. My wallet wouldn't allow me to take an extravagant trip to Vegas or L.A., so I settled for the next best thing: my father’s time share in upstate New York. As a family we never use it — most of the time it's rented to older couples or teens wanting to play “house.”

Luckily for me, the house was open this weekend. I decided to leave my girlfriends in the city, and instead invited my kinda-sorta-boyfriend-type-thing. We had a good time during the road trip from Philadelphia to the Adirondacks; it was fun in a cheesy-license-plate-game-playing, cranking-up-the-Spice-Girls, pass-the-Twizzlers kind of way.

When we arrived at the cabin, the first thing I wanted to do was walk along the water. I forgot just how beautiful the scenery was around the house. It sits on a back corner lot that faces a clear lake rimmed with evergreen pine trees. The shore was decorated with a sprinkling of gray and chestnut rocks. It was romantic, even through the overcast. The rest of the weekend was spent in typical log-cabin fashion: full-course meals, white wine, roaring fireplaces, hikes and fishing. It was the city-life antidote I didn't even know I needed.

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