About Us
Jennie Maydew and Kyle Wong met in April 2016 in the Brooklyn apartment building where Kyle lived and Jennie would soon move in. Eight months later they would get to talking at a New Year’s party in that same apartment. They shared a sour beer and enjoyed a midnight countdown on the roof. United by a love of nature, animals and adventure, they have been having fun ever since.
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Scroll down for a look at some of the highlights throughout the years…
Bouldering in Brooklyn
Our latest adventure in September 2024 - backpacking 31 miles in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park!
Learning & re-learning to ski in Vermont (Kyle learned as a child but became a snowboarder; Jennie, a native Coloradan, had never skied)
Cooling off in Lake Brienz, Switzerland on our hike through the Three Waterfalls Trail
Enjoying the safe and efficient cycling culture in Copenhagen
Our first time hiking Mount Beacon, one of our favorite local trails (you can take a train from NYC practically to the trailhead!)
Our first upstate trip in February 2017
Enjoying the floating saunas in Oslo, Norway - the roofs of the saunas are diving platforms into the fjord!
Halloween 2024 in paper mache heads of our cats Crank & Cheveyo
At Lake Tahoe during our first trip to California in June 2017
Camping at Jumbo Rocks in Joshua Tree National Park. We love spending time in national parks and have been to six together (Joshua Tree, Rocky Mountain, Yosemite, Acadia, Great Sand Dunes and Shenandoah)
Celebrating our engagement with karaoke duets
Having fun in NYC on our way to the roller rink
Wildlife safari in Bela-Bela, South Africa after Kyle came in first place at an antelope dung-spitting competition
Kayaking with manatees in Ichetucknee Springs, Florida after Kyle proposed at the Blue Hole (a natural underwater cave that feeds the springs)
Socializing foster kittens in their "purritos"
Swimming at Bachalpsee alpine lake in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Not pictured: the happy grazing cows and goats of the Swiss Alps
Enjoying the canals, architecture and cycling in Amsterdam
Our winter solstice tradition is to watch the sunrise from the beach after the longest night of the year. We are excited to have a new tradition in our summer solstice wedding anniversary! Fun Fact #1: In 2019 we enjoyed two winter solstices as we were traveling in the southern hemisphere that June. Fun Fact #2: Jennie’s engagement ring has a stone from Rockaway Beach in Queens.
At the summit of the Brienz-Rothorn Railway in Switzerland, a steam cogwheel train built in 1892. The summit has views of nearly 700 mountain peaks!
Hiking the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado