Hiking Wasson Peak
Driving from Texas to Iowa | Camping in Kansas and Missouri | Visiting Fort Larned National Historic Site | December 2023 We broke up the remainder of our drive across the Great Plains over three days, aiming to arrive in Iowa on Christmas Eve. On the first day, we drove North from Caprock Canyon through…
Here’s a photo journal of our Christmas break and first Christmas together! The day after Curtis’ last final, we flew back home to Iowa to spend a couple weeks with our families. Iowa welcomed us with an ice storm that day, and then a snow storm the next – a cruel transition from the beautiful…
Moving to Hawaii • Hiking Black Elk Peak, South Dakota’s High Point • September 7, 2017 We woke up just before dawn on Thursday morning, the day we had planned to do our first peak hike of our vacation. It was a brisk morning, but we didn’t have any trouble getting out of our tent after sleeping…
It’s beginning to *feel* a lot like Christmas! Here in Arizona, you can’t go by looks, because it always looks the same in the desert. So I guess you could say it always looks like Christmas… 😉 Anyway, it is becoming quite chilly down here. It’s only 60 degrees right now, and I’m sitting here…
Hiking the “Stairs of Doom” to Koko Crater • New Year’s Eve in Hawaii • December 31, 2017 We started off 2017 with a New Year’s Day snowshoe hike, and ended it with a New Year’s Eve trek up the Stairs of Doom to Koko Crater. And somehow, even with our lack of outings last winter,…
Canadian Rockies Road Trip, Day 13 | Sheraton, BC to Kitwanga, BC | Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park | Malkow Lookout Trail | Gitwangak Battle Hill National Historic Site | June 2023 We left our campsite at Co-op Lake early in the morning to continue our drive on the Yellowhead Highway. Today we would be driving…