Road Trip to Wilmington, NC | Iowa to Illinois | Fort Madison, IA | Nauvoo, IL | Hannibal, MO | Pere Marquette State Park | Shawnee National Forest | September 2023 After spending most of July in Wilmington, NC, we agreed that would be our last visit together this year. And yet here we were,…
Visiting Fort Macon State Park | Camping at Oyster Point | New Bern Civil War Battlefield Park | North Carolina | July 2023 The plan for our drive from Wilmington, NC back to the Midwest was to hug the coast and drive up the Outer Banks of North Carolina and up to Norfolk, VA before…
Moores Creek National Battlefield | Fort Anderson State Park | Oak Island | November 2022 For our one weekend in Wilmington, we wanted to get out of town and hit some of the historic sites neighboring the city. There was supposed to be a Veterans Day parade downtown, so we made an effort to get…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | Lake Scott, KS to Great Sand Dunes, CO | Camp Amanche | Bent’s Old Fort NHS | Great Sand Dunes National Park | October 2022 When we woke up at Lake Scott, it was overcast, dreary, and cold. But the region around the lake was so nice, we decided to at…
Spring Break Road Trip 2022 | Day 1 | Omaha, NE to Pineville, MO | Fort Scott National Historic Site | KS/MO/OK Tri-Point | February 2022 We’ve done a lot of road tripping throughout our 8.5 years of marriage, especially throughout the last year. But there is one part of the country encompassing 3 whole…
Dodge City, Kansas to Socorro, New Mexico | Visiting Fort Union National Monument and Pecos National Historic Sites | November 28, 2021 On Sunday morning, we awoke in our tent and tried to put off the moment we had been dreading all night: coming out of our warm sleeping bag cocoons and facing the brisk…