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Hiking the Southern Half of the Brent Trail | Gleason-Hubel Wildlife Area | April 2021 As we’ve mentioned in our last few posts, we had been training all of March and April for a backpacking trip. Most of our training had just consisted of walking longer distances on flat trails while carrying our heavy backpacks. However, we knew we needed… Read More
Section Hiking the Wabash Trace Trail | Mineola to Silver City, IA | April 2021 Curtis’ birthday fell on a Friday this year, and besides having to go into work for a few hours, we got to spend most of the day together! This was a huge improvement compared to the past few years, when he was somehow always standing… Read More
At the beginning of April, we traveled back home for a weekend to celebrate Easter and spring birthdays with my family. Curtis had just returned from a short work trip and was able to take a long weekend, so we left Omaha on Thursday morning. To change things up, we drove East on IA-92 all the way to Indianola, then… Read More
Section Hiking the Wabash Trace Trail | Mineola to Dumfries | March 2021 The day after we hiked our first stretch of the West Papio trail, we decided to try out another long distance bike trail in Iowa. The Wabash Trace Trail is a rail trail following the old Wabash Rail Line which used to connect Council Bluffs, IA to… Read More
Walking the Papio Trail | 36th to 72nd Street | Omaha, NE | March 2021 As the temperature is warming up and summer is quickly approaching, we are getting more serious about training and preparing for our hiking plans this year. At home, that looks like dehydrating fruit and preparing other healthy and space-efficient trail snacks. And now when we… Read More
Hiking in Cottonmill Park | County Counting & Courthouses from Kearney to Omaha | March 2021 Our night camping by the Platte was temperate weather wise, but extremely windy. Gusts of wind were constantly blowing through, shaking the tent. Charlotte got up a few times and used her new ‘trick’ of opening the tent door by sticking her head through… Read More