Belle and Holly swim out to join Lorna McMaster, of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, on her stand up paddle board as she gets ready to continue on a multi-day camping trip down the Connecticut River with her daughter, Rachael Ekkens, right, of Bellows Falls, Vt., and husband Brian McMaster, not pictured, after stopping to pick up supplies near Lyman Bridge in Lebanon, N.H., on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. This is the family’s first time on an excursion like this, and they’re keeping a leisurely pace as they paddle from Orford, N.H., to Bellows Falls. “It’s the parent-child trip of a lifetime,” Lorna McMaster said. (Valley News / Report For America - Alex Driehaus) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Belle and Holly swim out to join Lorna McMaster, of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, on her stand up paddle board as she gets ready to continue on a multi-day camping trip down the Connecticut River with her daughter, Rachael Ekkens, right, of Bellows Falls, Vt., and husband Brian McMaster, not pictured, after stopping to pick up supplies near Lyman Bridge in Lebanon, N.H., on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. This is the family’s first time on an excursion like this, and they’re keeping a leisurely pace as they paddle from Orford, N.H., to Bellows Falls. “It’s the parent-child trip of a lifetime,” Lorna McMaster said. (Valley News / Report For America - Alex Driehaus) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: Valley News / Report For America — Alex Driehaus